Jackfruit

Planted once, harvested year after year.

Check it on your land
Season
Whole year
100% of its area.
Grows best at
20–30 °C
0 °C survives 16–34 °C 40 °C

When to sow and harvest

Planted once, usually at the start of the rains. It stays for years: the first real harvest comes after about 5 years, then one every year.

Will it grow on your land?

Sivasagar Assam
Water
Season

Good fit in Sivasagar

Jackfruit

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 India.

₹72,000–₹1.1 lakh

per acre a year, before costs

once bearing, from about year 5

After typical costs: ₹26,000–₹62,000 an acre a year

  • Suits: Rain is enough
  • Suits: Ideal temperatures
  • Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 1,090 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,440 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,260 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 32 °C / 25 °C
  • Jul 33 °C / 25 °C
  • Aug 33 °C / 25 °C
  • Sep 32 °C / 25 °C
  • Oct 31 °C / 22 °C
  • Nov 28 °C / 16 °C
  • Dec 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
  • Jan 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
  • Feb 25 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
  • Mar 28 °C / 16 °C
  • Apr 29 °C / 19 °C
  • May 31 °C / 22 °C
  • Jun 32 °C / 25 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

  • The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
  • Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
  • 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.

How the soil score works

Money

Yield: about 41 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.

Average mandi price each year (₹ a quintal):
  1. ₹1,980 2021
  2. ₹2,020 2022
  3. ₹2,170 2023
  4. ₹2,670 2024
  5. ₹2,430 2025

Prices are usually best in October.

Typical costs are about ₹46,000 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

  • Short of boron Your soil is likely short of boron.

    Mix 4 kg of borax per acre into the soil before sowing.

    Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.

See every crop that suits Sivasagar

What it needs

Temperature

20–30 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 16–34 °C. Frost hurts it.

Water

The check above works out its water need on your land.

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 4.3 to 8.

Soil

  • No salty soil
  • Ordinary farm soil is fine
  • K Needs plenty of potassium, zinc and boron
How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°); TerraClimate 1991–2020 temperature normals (about 4 km), where each district's villages are.

Fertiliser for one acre

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra for the dose.

Watch out for

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to watch for.

What an acre earns

At India's average yield and a recent price, named below. Your land, water and mandi will differ.

Left an acre, a year, once it bears

₹1,01,900

Yield India's average
94.7 quintals an acre
× Price harvest price last season (Apr–Jun 2026)
₹2,175 a quintal
= Income
₹2,06,100
− Costs about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys
−₹1,04,200
= Left
₹1,01,900

A good year or field earns about a fifth more, a poor one a fifth less: ₹1,64,900 to ₹2,47,300 income an acre. Costs stay the same either way.

It bears from about year 5: nothing to sell before.

Work it out for your land

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
October, ₹3,250 a quintal
Lowest
June, ₹1,800 a quintal
₹1,800
₹3,250
J F M A M J J A S O N D

Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis: each month's latest price (Dec 2025–Nov 2026).

Latest prices near Sivasagar Today's price across India

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India
5.1 lakh acres
2025-26
Average yield
94.7 quintals an acre (23.4 tonnes a hectare)
2025-26
Most area
Kerala
46% of India's

States that grow it

Each state's share of India's production, in its latest year with figures (2025-26). Tap a state to open it.

Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).

Where it grows most

The districts with the most area in recent years. The map colours every district growing it on at least 100 ha by yield; the numbers mark these districts.

No recent district figures for this crop.