Jackfruit

Water

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

Needs about 950 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 930 mm it can use in a normal year, and 730 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 25 °C / 18 °C
• Jul 25 °C / 18 °C
• Aug 25 °C / 18 °C
• Sep 25 °C / 17 °C
• Oct 24 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 18 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 23 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 25 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• May 25 °C / 15 °C
• Jun 25 °C / 18 °C

Nights in December can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Likes pH 5.5–7.5. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 32 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.

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 ₹35,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.