Tea

Water

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

Needs about 1,590 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 430 mm it can use in a normal year, and 330 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 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 35 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 21 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 27 °C / 13 °C
• Apr 34 °C / 18 °C
• May 39 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in December can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Soil for Tea: 5 out of 10 (poor).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

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.