Curry Leaf

Water

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

Needs about 1,100 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 630 mm it can use in a normal year, and 490 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 39 °C / 26 °C
• Jul 34 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 22 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 23 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 28 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 35 °C / 20 °C
• May 39 °C / 24 °C
• Jun 39 °C / 26 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in January can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Soil for Curry Leaf: 6 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: nitrogen, organic carbon, pH and 3 more.

• Most fields here are short of potassium.

Likes pH 5.5–6.5. We have no pH figures for this place.

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.