Vanilla
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Needs care: Frost risk in January
- Not known: No soil score
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,600 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 520 mm it can use in a normal year, and 490 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 21–30 °C on average, and survives 10–33 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 39 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 33 °C / 25 °C
- Sep 33 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 31 °C / 18 °C
- Nov 26 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 21 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 18 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 22 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 28 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 34 °C / 19 °C
- May 39 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 39 °C / 27 °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
No soil score here: the soil tests don't say enough about nitrogen, phosphorus or potassium.
Likes pH 5.5–7.0.
Money
Yield: about 1.4 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).
A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 3 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.
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.