Guava
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Sold at 4 mandis in your district.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Needs care: Frost risk in December
- Needs care: Soil 7/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,290 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 180 mm it can use in a normal year, and 110 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 41 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 37 °C / 28 °C
- Aug 36 °C / 27 °C
- Sep 34 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 33 °C / 18 °C
- Nov 28 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 23 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 19 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 23 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 28 °C / 14 °C
- Apr 36 °C / 19 °C
- May 41 °C / 24 °C
- Jun 41 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Nights in December can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.
Soil
Soil for Guava: 7 out of 10 (okay).
Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.
- 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.
- Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 93 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.
Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025–February 2026): about ₹2,300 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹4,150 a quintal, the middle of 21 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹2,200 2023
- ₹1,900 2024
- ₹2,600 2025
Prices are usually best in October.
Typical costs are about ₹1.3 lakh 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 phosphorus Your soil is likely short of phosphorus.
Add about a quarter more DAP or single super phosphate than the usual dose, at sowing.
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.
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Short of manganese Your soil is likely short of manganese.
Spray manganese sulphate, 5 g per litre of water, on the young crop.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.