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.
₹1.0 lakh–₹1.6 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 5
After typical costs: ₹28,000–₹80,000 an acre a year
- Needs care: Risky: 4 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 4 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,200 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,040 mm it can use in a normal year, and 830 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 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 33 °C / 26 °C
- Aug 32 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 33 °C / 26 °C
- Oct 32 °C / 24 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 19 °C
- Dec 27 °C / 14 °C
- Jan 25 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 29 °C / 16 °C
- Mar 33 °C / 21 °C
- Apr 35 °C / 24 °C
- May 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
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.
- Most fields here are short of sulphur.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 69 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.
On rain alone it gets about 87% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 87% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (April–June 2026): about ₹2,175 a quintal across India's mandis.
- ₹1,980 2021
- ₹2,020 2022
- ₹2,170 2023
- ₹2,670 2024
- ₹2,430 2025
Prices are usually best in October.
Typical costs are about ₹75,000 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):
- Urea 100%