Tea

Water

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

Needs about 1,890 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 120 mm it can use in a normal year, and 80 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 42 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 39 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 37 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 36 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 23 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 28 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 33 °C / 16 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
• May 43 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 42 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in January 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, sulphur and boron.

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