Guava
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across India.
₹44,000–₹66,000
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 2
After typical costs: ₹18,000–₹40,000 an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough, even in a dry year.
Needs about 1,150 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,570 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,350 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 20–33 °C on average, and survives 10–45 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 32 °C / 25 °C
- Jul 31 °C / 25 °C
- Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
- Sep 32 °C / 25 °C
- Oct 31 °C / 24 °C
- Nov 29 °C / 19 °C
- Dec 26 °C / 14 °C
- Jan 25 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 29 °C / 15 °C
- Mar 32 °C / 19 °C
- Apr 33 °C / 23 °C
- May 33 °C / 24 °C
- Jun 32 °C / 25 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Guava: 8 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
- Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
- Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 18 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 2 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025–February 2026): about ₹3,000 a quintal across India's mandis.
This week: about ₹4,000 a quintal, the middle of 128 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹47,000 a year after typical costs.
- ₹2,580 2021
- ₹2,500 2022
- ₹2,600 2023
- ₹3,080 2024
- ₹3,250 2025
Prices are usually best in June.
Typical costs are about ₹26,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.
How to make it work
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Short of nitrogen Your soil is likely short of nitrogen.
Add about a quarter more urea than the usual dose, in two or three splits. A pulse crop in rotation also adds nitrogen.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
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Short of organic carbon Your soil is likely short of organic carbon.
Add 4 tonnes of compost or farmyard manure per acre before sowing, and plough crop leftovers back in instead of burning them.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.