Curry Leaf

Water

Rain falls about 8 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,180 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 790 mm it can use in a normal year, and 690 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 36 °C / 26 °C
• Jul 30 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 30 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 31 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 29 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 28 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 28 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 31 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 35 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 24 °C
• May 41 °C / 28 °C
• Jun 36 °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.