Nutmeg

Water

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

Needs about 1,550 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 570 mm it can use in a normal year, and 490 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 22–34 °C on average, and survives 12–38 °C.

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

• Jun 39 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 34 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 26 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 21 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 22 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 28 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 34 °C / 19 °C
• May 39 °C / 24 °C
• Jun 39 °C / 27 °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

No soil score here: the soil tests don't say enough about nitrogen, phosphorus or potassium.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 3.0 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 6 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

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

Mandi price at an earlier harvest (June–August 2025): about ₹25,000 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in May.

Typical costs are about ₹41,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.