Guava

Water

Rain falls about 5 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,180 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 940 mm it can use in a normal year, and 800 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 39 °C / 26 °C
• Jul 35 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 26 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 20 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 27 °C / 14 °C
• Apr 33 °C / 18 °C
• May 38 °C / 23 °C
• Jun 39 °C / 26 °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 organic carbon.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 60 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

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 ₹4,500 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹6,250 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹2.1 lakh a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in October.

Typical costs are about ₹86,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.