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.
₹62,000–₹93,000
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 2
After typical costs: ₹15,000–₹46,000 an acre a year
- Needs care: Risky: 6 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 6 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,170 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 920 mm it can use in a normal year, and 760 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 33 °C / 25 °C
- Jul 29 °C / 24 °C
- Aug 29 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 30 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 30 °C / 22 °C
- Nov 28 °C / 17 °C
- Dec 26 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 27 °C / 14 °C
- Feb 29 °C / 17 °C
- Mar 32 °C / 20 °C
- Apr 34 °C / 24 °C
- May 36 °C / 26 °C
- Jun 33 °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.
- Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
- Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
- Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
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 79% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 79% 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 ₹56,000 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.
About 70% of local fields of this crop get it.
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Short of phosphorus Your soil is likely short of phosphorus.
Add about a quarter more DAP or single super phosphate than the usual dose, at sowing.
About 34% of local fields of this crop get it.
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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.
Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 70%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 37%
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 34%
- Triple Super Phosphate (TSP) 29%