Jackfruit

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 1,310 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 610 mm it can use in a normal year, and 440 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 39 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 26 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 23 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 28 °C / 14 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• May 42 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 39 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in April get hotter than it likes. Young plants need shade and water then.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 71 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 5 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (April–June 2026): about ₹2,175 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in October.

Typical costs are about ₹78,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.