Litchi

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 1,150 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,100 mm it can use in a normal year, and 860 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 / 27 °C
• Jul 32 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 26 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 19 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 15 °C
• Jan 25 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 29 °C / 17 °C
• Mar 33 °C / 22 °C
• Apr 35 °C / 25 °C
• May 35 °C / 26 °C
• Jun 34 °C / 27 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 5.5–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 24 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.

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 ₹1.0 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.