Tea
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop.
No price yet to estimate income
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.
Needs about 1,280 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,500 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,270 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 27 °C / 20 °C
- Jul 27 °C / 21 °C
- Aug 27 °C / 21 °C
- Sep 27 °C / 20 °C
- Oct 26 °C / 18 °C
- Nov 24 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 25 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 27 °C / 16 °C
- May 27 °C / 18 °C
- Jun 27 °C / 20 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Tea: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
Likes pH 4.5–5.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
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.
No mandi or support price for this crop yet.