Litchi

Water

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

Needs about 1,300 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 410 mm it can use in a normal year, and 330 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 30 °C / 21 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 20 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 20 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 20 °C
• Oct 29 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 19 °C
• Dec 28 °C / 17 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 17 °C
• Feb 32 °C / 18 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 21 °C
• Apr 34 °C / 22 °C
• May 33 °C / 22 °C
• Jun 30 °C / 21 °C

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 21 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 23 °C. The district's cooler, higher villages get colder, about 20 °C: enough to grow it there.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• 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 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.