Rubber

Water

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

Needs about 1,650 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 550 mm it can use in a normal year, and 420 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 24–33 °C on average, and survives 10–45 °C.

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

• Jun 37 °C / 26 °C
• Jul 33 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 26 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 32 °C / 16 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 21 °C
• May 39 °C / 25 °C
• Jun 37 °C / 26 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Rubber: 7 out of 10 (okay).

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 4.5–6.0.

Money

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 7 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

No yield records for this crop yet.

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 through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹22,663 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹28,300 a quintal, the middle of 5 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in November.