Tea

Water

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

Needs about 1,730 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 340 mm it can use in a normal year, and 180 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 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 33 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 36 °C / 23 °C
• Nov 34 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 13 °C
• Jan 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 31 °C / 15 °C
• Mar 35 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 37 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• May 38 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm 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.