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.
₹53,000–₹79,000
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 2
After typical costs: ₹34,000–₹60,000 an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough, even in a dry year.
Needs about 1,180 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 2,120 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,890 mm in a dry year.
Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.
Temperature
Grows best at 20–33 °C on average, and survives 10–45 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 30 °C / 24 °C
- Jul 28 °C / 23 °C
- Aug 29 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 30 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 31 °C / 24 °C
- Nov 32 °C / 23 °C
- Dec 32 °C / 22 °C
- Jan 32 °C / 22 °C
- Feb 33 °C / 23 °C
- Mar 34 °C / 25 °C
- Apr 34 °C / 26 °C
- May 33 °C / 26 °C
- Jun 30 °C / 24 °C
Soil
Soil for Guava: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- 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 sulphur.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 13 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 ₹5,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹4,000 a quintal, the middle of 128 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹34,000 a year after typical costs.
- ₹5,250 2021
- ₹6,010 2024
- ₹6,500 2025
Prices are usually best in October.
Typical costs are about ₹19,000 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 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.
Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- NPK Mixture 55%