Tea
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Needs care: Frost risk in January
- Needs care: Soil 7/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,350 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 770 mm it can use in a normal year, and 630 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 20–30 °C on average, and survives 8–35 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 35 °C / 24 °C
- Jul 30 °C / 23 °C
- Aug 29 °C / 23 °C
- Sep 29 °C / 21 °C
- Oct 27 °C / 17 °C
- Nov 23 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 16 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 20 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 25 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 31 °C / 18 °C
- May 35 °C / 23 °C
- Jun 35 °C / 24 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Nights in January can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.
Soil
Soil for Tea: 7 out of 10 (okay).
Not in the score: nitrogen, organic carbon, sulphur and boron.
- Soil here is often too alkaline for it.
Likes pH 4.5–5.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 3 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.
No mandi or support price for this crop yet.