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 your state.
₹2.8 lakh–₹4.2 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 5
After typical costs: ₹1.2 lakh–₹2.6 lakh an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 10/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.
Needs about 1,110 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,020 mm it can use in a normal year, and 860 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 26 °C / 19 °C
- Jul 24 °C / 19 °C
- Aug 24 °C / 19 °C
- Sep 25 °C / 19 °C
- Oct 26 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 26 °C / 18 °C
- Dec 26 °C / 16 °C
- Jan 27 °C / 16 °C
- Feb 29 °C / 17 °C
- Mar 31 °C / 19 °C
- Apr 30 °C / 20 °C
- May 30 °C / 20 °C
- Jun 26 °C / 19 °C
Soil
Soil for Jackfruit: 10 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 148 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–May 2026): about ₹2,375 a quintal across mandis in your state.
Prices are usually best in May.
Typical costs are about ₹1.6 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.