Vanilla

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 650 mm it can use in a normal year, and 550 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 35 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 33 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 26 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 25 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 22 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 20 °C
• Jan 29 °C / 20 °C
• Feb 30 °C / 21 °C
• Mar 33 °C / 23 °C
• Apr 35 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• May 37 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 35 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Vanilla: 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

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.