Litchi

Water

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

Needs about 1,290 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 590 mm it can use in a normal year, and 230 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 36 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 36 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 35 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 35 °C / 26 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 25 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 24 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 23 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 23 °C
• Feb 32 °C / 23 °C
• Mar 35 °C / 25 °C
• Apr 36 °C / 27 °C
• May 37 °C / 28 °C
• Jun 36 °C / 27 °C

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 21 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 26 °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.