Litchi

Water

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

Needs about 1,110 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,020 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 26 °C / 19 °C
• Jul 24 °C / 19 °C
• Aug 24 °C / 19 °C
• Sep 25 °C / 19 °C
• Oct 26 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 26 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 16 °C
• Jan 27 °C / 16 °C
• Feb 29 °C / 17 °C
• Mar 31 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 30 °C / 20 °C
• May 30 °C / 20 °C
• Jun 26 °C / 19 °C

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.

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.

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.