Nutmeg

Water

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

Needs about 1,770 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 470 mm it can use in a normal year, and 340 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 34 °C / 24 °C
• Jul 33 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 21 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 19 °C
• Jan 31 °C / 19 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 19 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 22 °C
• Apr 36 °C / 24 °C
• May 36 °C / 25 °C
• Jun 34 °C / 24 °C

Soil

Soil for Nutmeg: 8 out of 10 (good).

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

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 3.9 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.

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 ₹53,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.