Jackfruit

Water

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

Needs about 1,430 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 730 mm it can use in a normal year, and 600 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 38 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 32 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 13 °C
• Jan 27 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 31 °C / 15 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 41 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• May 43 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 38 °C / 27 °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).

Not in the score: phosphorus.

• 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 nitrogen.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 87 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 ₹1,125 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Prices are usually best in April.

Typical costs are about ₹96,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.