Jackfruit

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 1,090 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,290 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,080 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 27 °C / 20 °C
• Jul 26 °C / 19 °C
• Aug 26 °C / 19 °C
• Sep 26 °C / 19 °C
• Oct 26 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 26 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 17 °C
• Jan 26 °C / 17 °C
• Feb 28 °C / 17 °C
• Mar 29 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 29 °C / 20 °C
• May 29 °C / 20 °C
• Jun 27 °C / 20 °C

Soil

Soil for Jackfruit: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: organic carbon and pH.

• 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. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 85 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (no recent yield figures 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 ₹2,425 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in February.

Typical costs are about ₹93,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.