Curry Leaf

Water

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

Needs about 1,220 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 230 mm it can use in a normal year, and 130 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 40 °C / 28 °C
• Jul 36 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 35 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 35 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 30 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 24 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 20 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 24 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 31 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 38 °C / 21 °C
• May 42 °C / 26 °C
• Jun 40 °C / 28 °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: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

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.