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 your state.
₹55,000–₹83,000
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 2
After typical costs: ₹13,000–₹41,000 an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Needs care: Frost risk in December
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.
Needs about 1,010 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,290 mm it can use in a normal year, and 930 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 30 °C / 18 °C
- Jul 27 °C / 18 °C
- Aug 27 °C / 18 °C
- Sep 26 °C / 17 °C
- Oct 25 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 20 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 17 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 15 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 23 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 29 °C / 15 °C
- May 31 °C / 17 °C
- Jun 30 °C / 18 °C
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: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 29 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 ₹2,350 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹2,400 a quintal, the middle of 7 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹29,000 a year after typical costs.
- ₹1,750 2022
- ₹1,980 2023
- ₹2,180 2024
- ₹2,200 2025
Prices are usually best in June.
Typical costs are about ₹42,000 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.