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 500 mm it can use in a normal year, and 290 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 35 °C / 25 °C
• Jul 34 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 34 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 23 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 22 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 21 °C
• Jan 31 °C / 21 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 21 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 23 °C
• Apr 36 °C / 25 °C
• May 36 °C / 25 °C
• Jun 35 °C / 25 °C

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 21 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 25 °C. The district's cooler, higher villages get colder, about 16 °C: enough to grow it there.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

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.