Litchi
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 India.
₹95,000–₹1.4 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 5
After typical costs: ₹34,000–₹81,000 an acre a year
- Needs care: Risky: 7 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 7 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,180 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 870 mm it can use in a normal year, and 780 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 34 °C / 26 °C
- Jul 33 °C / 27 °C
- Aug 33 °C / 27 °C
- Sep 33 °C / 26 °C
- Oct 32 °C / 23 °C
- Nov 29 °C / 16 °C
- Dec 26 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 27 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 32 °C / 17 °C
- Apr 35 °C / 22 °C
- May 35 °C / 25 °C
- Jun 34 °C / 26 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Litchi: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 5.5–6.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 14 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 74% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 74% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (May–June 2026): about ₹11,375 a quintal across India's mandis.
- ₹8,000 2024
- ₹14,000 2025
Prices are usually best in August.
Typical costs are about ₹61,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.