Litchi

Water

Rain falls about 10 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,330 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 850 mm it can use in a normal year, and 610 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 37 °C / 26 °C
• Jul 35 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 35 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 23 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 21 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 21 °C
• Feb 32 °C / 21 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 23 °C
• Apr 36 °C / 26 °C
• May 37 °C / 27 °C
• Jun 37 °C / 26 °C

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 21 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 25 °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.