Litchi

Water

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

Needs about 1,370 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 620 mm it can use in a normal year, and 410 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 32 °C / 23 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 22 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 22 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 13 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 12 °C
• Feb 32 °C / 14 °C
• Mar 35 °C / 17 °C
• Apr 37 °C / 21 °C
• May 37 °C / 23 °C
• Jun 32 °C / 23 °C

Soil

Soil for Litchi: 7 out of 10 (okay).

• The pH here suits 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.
• 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.

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 ₹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.