Vanilla

Water

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

Needs about 1,760 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 330 mm it can use in a normal year, and 230 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 31 °C / 22 °C
• Jul 29 °C / 22 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 22 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 30 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 19 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 17 °C
• Jan 31 °C / 17 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 19 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 22 °C
• Apr 37 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• May 36 °C / 23 °C
• Jun 31 °C / 22 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Vanilla: 7 out of 10 (okay).

• The pH here suits it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of sulphur, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

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.