Tea

Water

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

Needs about 1,770 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 210 mm it can use in a normal year, and 110 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 41 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 35 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 35 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 35 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 11 °C
• Dec 24 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 20 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 25 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 31 °C / 15 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 20 °C
• May 42 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 41 °C / 28 °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.

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

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

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.