Tea

Water

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

Needs about 960 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 270 mm it can use in a normal year, and 200 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 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 22 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 22 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 20 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 16 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 11 °C / 1 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 6 °C / -4 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 3 °C / -6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 5 °C / -4 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 9 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 16 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• May 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)

Nights in October 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: sulphur and boron.

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 4.5–5.5.

Money

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.