Tea

Water

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

Needs about 1,520 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 820 mm it can use in a normal year, and 660 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 34 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 30 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 27 °C / 14 °C
• Apr 33 °C / 19 °C
• May 38 °C / 23 °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: 7 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: organic carbon.

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