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 2 mandis in your district.
₹1.5 lakh–₹2.2 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 5
After typical costs: ₹44,000–₹1.2 lakh an acre a year
- Needs care: Risky: 6 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 6 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,170 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 920 mm it can use in a normal year, and 760 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 33 °C / 25 °C
- Jul 29 °C / 24 °C
- Aug 29 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 30 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 30 °C / 22 °C
- Nov 28 °C / 17 °C
- Dec 26 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 27 °C / 14 °C
- Feb 29 °C / 17 °C
- Mar 32 °C / 20 °C
- Apr 34 °C / 24 °C
- May 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 33 °C / 25 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Jackfruit: 8 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
- Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
- Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 93 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 79% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 79% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (April 2026): about ₹2,500 a quintal at mandis in your district.
Prices are usually best in March.
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.
How to make it work
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Short of nitrogen Your soil is likely short of nitrogen.
Add about a quarter more urea than the usual dose, in two or three splits. A pulse crop in rotation also adds nitrogen.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
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Short of phosphorus Your soil is likely short of phosphorus.
Add about a quarter more DAP or single super phosphate than the usual dose, at sowing.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
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Short of organic carbon Your soil is likely short of organic carbon.
Add 4 tonnes of compost or farmyard manure per acre before sowing, and plough crop leftovers back in instead of burning them.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.