Tea

Water

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

Needs about 1,790 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 320 mm it can use in a normal year, and 210 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 34 °C / 24 °C
• Jul 32 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 23 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 21 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 19 °C
• Jan 32 °C / 19 °C
• Feb 34 °C / 20 °C
• Mar 37 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• May 38 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 34 °C / 24 °C

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.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

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.