Curry Leaf

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 1,300 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 590 mm it can use in a normal year, and 460 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 27–41 °C on average, and survives 8–47 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 37 °C / 26 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 31 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 32 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 31 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 30 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 30 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 34 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 38 °C / 21 °C
• Apr 41 °C / 25 °C
• May 43 °C / 28 °C
• Jun 37 °C / 26 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Curry Leaf: 9 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of sulphur, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 5.5–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 72 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

No mandi or support price for this crop yet.