Nutmeg

Water

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

Needs about 1,800 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 580 mm it can use in a normal year, and 480 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 36 °C / 26 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 15 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 16 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 18 °C
• Mar 37 °C / 21 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 25 °C
• May 42 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 36 °C / 26 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Nutmeg: 8 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.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

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.