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

Will it grow on your land?

Pithoragarh Uttarakhand
Water
Season

Good fit in Pithoragarh

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
  • Suits: Ideal temperatures
  • Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 1,060 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,450 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,010 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 32 °C / 21 °C
  • Jul 29 °C / 21 °C
  • Aug 28 °C / 21 °C
  • Sep 28 °C / 19 °C
  • Oct 26 °C / 15 °C
  • Nov 21 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
  • Dec 18 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
  • Jan 17 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
  • Feb 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
  • Mar 26 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
  • Apr 32 °C / 17 °C
  • May 34 °C / 19 °C
  • Jun 32 °C / 21 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Guava: 8 out of 10 (good).

  • The pH here suits it.
  • Many fields here are short of potassium, 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 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.

Average mandi price each year (₹ a quintal):
  1. ₹1,750 2022
  2. ₹1,980 2023
  3. ₹2,180 2024
  4. ₹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

  • 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.

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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 Pithoragarh 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.