Jackfruit

Water

Rain falls about 5 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,220 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,000 mm it can use in a normal year, and 590 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 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 35 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 25 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 24 °C
• Dec 28 °C / 23 °C
• Jan 29 °C / 22 °C
• Feb 30 °C / 23 °C
• Mar 33 °C / 24 °C
• Apr 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• May 36 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 171 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 82% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 82% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (May 2026): about ₹3,750 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in May.

Typical costs are about ₹1.9 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.