Grows best at
20–33 °C
0 °C survives 10–45 °C 40 °C

Will it grow on your land?

Akola Maharashtra
Water
Season

Won't work: too dry without irrigation

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.

Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on

  • Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
  • Suits: Ideal temperatures
  • Needs care: Soil 7/10
Why, and how to make it work

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 1,470 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 510 mm it can use in a normal year, and 420 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 38 °C / 26 °C
  • Jul 31 °C / 24 °C
  • Aug 31 °C / 23 °C
  • Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
  • Oct 33 °C / 21 °C
  • Nov 32 °C / 17 °C
  • Dec 31 °C / 15 °C
  • Jan 30 °C / 14 °C
  • Feb 34 °C / 17 °C
  • Mar 38 °C / 21 °C
  • Apr 41 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
  • May 43 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
  • Jun 38 °C / 26 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Guava: 7 out of 10 (okay).

  • The pH here suits it.
  • Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
  • Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
  • Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

How the soil score works

Money

Yield: about 41 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 ₹2,513 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹3,000 a quintal, the middle of 16 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Average mandi price each year (₹ a quintal):
  1. ₹1,880 2021
  2. ₹1,930 2022
  3. ₹2,250 2023
  4. ₹2,210 2025

Prices are usually best in September.

Typical costs are about ₹59,000 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Short of sulphur Your soil is likely short of sulphur.

    Use single super phosphate instead of DAP, or add about 100 kg of gypsum per acre before sowing.

    Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.

  • Short of zinc Your soil is likely short of zinc.

    Mix 10 kg of zinc sulphate per acre into the soil before sowing. One dose lasts two or three seasons.

    Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.

  • Short of iron Your soil is likely short of iron.

    Spray ferrous sulphate, 5 g per litre of water, when young leaves turn yellow.

    Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.

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What it needs

Temperature

20–33 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 10–45 °C. Frost hurts it.

Water

The check above works out its water need on your land.

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 4 to 8.5.

Soil

  • Takes a little salt
  • Needs rich soil
  • K Needs plenty of potassium, zinc and boron
How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°); TerraClimate 1991–2020 temperature normals (about 4 km), where each district's villages are.

Fertiliser for one acre

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra for the dose.

Watch out for

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to watch for.

What an acre earns

At India's average yield and a recent price, named below. Your land, water and mandi will differ.

Left an acre, a year, once it bears

₹94,300

Yield India's average
60.0 quintals an acre
× Price harvest price last season (Dec 2025–Feb 2026)
₹3,000 a quintal
= Income
₹1,80,100
− Costs about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys
−₹85,800
= Left
₹94,300

This week guava sells at about ₹4,000 a quintal: India's middle price at 128 mandis, latest 13 Nov. At that price an acre would leave about ₹1,54,300 a year.

A good year or field earns about a fifth more, a poor one a fifth less: ₹1,44,100 to ₹2,16,100 income an acre. Costs stay the same either way.

It bears from about year 2: nothing to sell before.

Work it out for your land

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
June, ₹5,000 a quintal
Lowest
January, ₹3,000 a quintal
₹3,000
₹5,000
J F M A M J J A S O N D

Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis: each month's latest price (Dec 2025–Nov 2026).

Latest prices near Akola Today's price across India

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India
9.2 lakh acres
2025-26
Average yield
60.0 quintals an acre (14.8 tonnes a hectare)
2025-26
Most area
Madhya Pradesh
15% of India's

States that grow it

Each state's share of India's production, in its latest year with figures (2025-26). Tap a state to open it.

Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).

Where it grows most

The districts with the most area in recent years. The map colours every district growing it on at least 100 ha by yield; the numbers mark these districts.

No recent district figures for this crop.