Litchi

Water

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

Needs about 1,340 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 250 mm it can use in a normal year, and 210 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 20–35 °C on average, and survives 15–40 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 40 °C / 28 °C
• Jul 34 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 13 °C
• Dec 24 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 22 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 27 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 33 °C / 17 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 22 °C
• May 42 °C / 27 °C
• Jun 40 °C / 28 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Litchi: 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 5.5–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 37 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 (May 2026): about ₹12,000 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.