Guava

Water

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

Needs about 1,110 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,020 mm it can use in a normal year, and 860 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 26 °C / 19 °C
• Jul 24 °C / 19 °C
• Aug 24 °C / 19 °C
• Sep 25 °C / 19 °C
• Oct 26 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 26 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 16 °C
• Jan 27 °C / 16 °C
• Feb 29 °C / 17 °C
• Mar 31 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 30 °C / 20 °C
• May 30 °C / 20 °C
• Jun 26 °C / 19 °C

Soil

Soil for Guava: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 86 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 ₹3,800 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹6,500 a quintal, the middle of 3 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹4.4 lakh a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in August.

Typical costs are about ₹1.2 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.