Jackfruit
Holds the land all year
Grown on 6,311 acres here. Last recorded in 2012-13. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹1.6 lakh–₹2.5 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 5
After typical costs: ₹71,000–₹1.5 lakh an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
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 1,180 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,400 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,030 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 31 °C / 25 °C
- Jul 30 °C / 24 °C
- Aug 31 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 31 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 31 °C / 24 °C
- Nov 31 °C / 24 °C
- Dec 31 °C / 23 °C
- Jan 32 °C / 23 °C
- Feb 33 °C / 24 °C
- Mar 33 °C / 25 °C
- Apr 33 °C / 26 °C
- May 33 °C / 26 °C
- Jun 31 °C / 25 °C
Soil
Soil for Jackfruit: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
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.
How to make it work
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Short of boron Your soil is likely short of boron.
Mix 4 kg of borax per acre into the soil before sowing.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.