Tea

Water

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

Needs about 1,330 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 750 mm it can use in a normal year, and 640 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 29 °C / 22 °C
• Jul 30 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 28 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 25 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 22 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 24 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 27 °C / 15 °C
• Apr 28 °C / 17 °C
• May 29 °C / 20 °C
• Jun 29 °C / 22 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

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.