Litchi

Water

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

Needs about 1,230 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 660 mm it can use in a normal year, and 580 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 35 °C / 26 °C
• Jul 33 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 23 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 27 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 32 °C / 16 °C
• Apr 36 °C / 22 °C
• May 37 °C / 25 °C
• Jun 35 °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.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 5.5–6.5.

Money

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.

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–June 2026): about ₹11,375 a quintal across India's mandis.

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.