Tea

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 670 mm it can use in a normal year, and 530 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 38 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 28 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 27 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 31 °C / 13 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 17 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
• May 42 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 38 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in April get hotter than it likes. Young plants need shade and water then.

Soil

Soil for Tea: 6 out of 10 (okay).

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

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.