Jackfruit
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Sold at 3 mandis in your district.
₹3.4 lakh–₹5.1 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 5
After typical costs: ₹2.4 lakh–₹4.1 lakh an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Needs care: Frost risk in January
- Suits: Soil 10/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
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 1,080 mm it can use in a normal year, and 880 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 20–30 °C on average, and survives 16–34 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 36 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 32 °C / 24 °C
- Aug 31 °C / 23 °C
- Sep 30 °C / 22 °C
- Oct 28 °C / 17 °C
- Nov 24 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 17 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 26 °C / 14 °C
- Apr 31 °C / 19 °C
- May 36 °C / 24 °C
- Jun 36 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Nights in January can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.
Soil
Soil for Jackfruit: 10 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 95 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).
A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 5 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (June 2026): about ₹4,500 a quintal at mandis in your district.
Prices are usually best in June.
Typical costs are about ₹1.0 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.