Litchi

Water

Rain falls about 7 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 880 mm it can use in a normal year, and 800 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 28 °C / 21 °C
• Jul 25 °C / 20 °C
• Aug 25 °C / 20 °C
• Sep 26 °C / 19 °C
• Oct 28 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 15 °C
• Jan 29 °C / 15 °C
• Feb 31 °C / 16 °C
• Mar 33 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 34 °C / 21 °C
• May 33 °C / 21 °C
• Jun 28 °C / 21 °C

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 21 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 22 °C.

Soil

Soil for Litchi: 9 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.

Likes pH 5.5–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 24 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

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 72% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 72% of this yield.

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.