Nutmeg

Water

Rain falls about 4 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,540 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,350 mm it can use in a normal year, and 900 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 30 °C / 23 °C
• Jul 29 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 24 °C
• Dec 32 °C / 23 °C
• Jan 33 °C / 23 °C
• Feb 34 °C / 24 °C
• Mar 35 °C / 25 °C
• Apr 34 °C / 26 °C
• May 33 °C / 25 °C
• Jun 30 °C / 23 °C

Soil

Soil for Nutmeg: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of sulphur, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 2.9 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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

On rain alone it gets about 88% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 88% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (July–August 2026): about ₹48,675 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in May.

Typical costs are about ₹40,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.