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.
₹70,000–₹1.1 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 2
After typical costs: ₹23,000–₹58,000 an acre a year
- Needs care: Risky: 3 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 3 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,250 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,120 mm it can use in a normal year, and 980 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 35 °C / 27 °C
- Jul 32 °C / 26 °C
- Aug 32 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 32 °C / 26 °C
- Oct 31 °C / 23 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 19 °C
- Dec 28 °C / 15 °C
- Jan 28 °C / 15 °C
- Feb 31 °C / 18 °C
- Mar 35 °C / 22 °C
- Apr 37 °C / 25 °C
- May 38 °C / 27 °C
- Jun 35 °C / 27 °C
Soil
Soil for Guava: 8 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
- Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 33 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.
On rain alone it gets about 89% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 89% of this yield.
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 ₹70,000 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 ₹47,000 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 boron Your soil is likely short of boron.
Mix 4 kg of borax per acre into the soil before sowing.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.