Litchi

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 990 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,440 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,290 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

Grows best at 20–35 °C on average, and survives 15–40 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 29 °C / 22 °C
• Jul 29 °C / 22 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 22 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 28 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 25 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 21 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 22 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 25 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 26 °C / 16 °C
• May 28 °C / 19 °C
• Jun 29 °C / 22 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: sulphur.

• The pH here suits it, though not most crops.

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.