Nutmeg

Water

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

Needs about 1,830 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 860 mm it can use in a normal year, and 550 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 38 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 32 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 15 °C
• Jan 31 °C / 15 °C
• Feb 34 °C / 18 °C
• Mar 37 °C / 22 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 26 °C
• May 43 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 38 °C / 27 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: zinc, iron, copper and manganese.

• 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 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.