Papaya

Water

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

Needs about 1,600 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 320 mm it can use in a normal year, and 210 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 21–30 °C on average, and survives 12–44 °C.

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

• Jun 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 35 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 36 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 32 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 28 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 26 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 29 °C / 13 °C
• Mar 35 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• May 42 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Papaya: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 34 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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 through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹2,150 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹2,700 a quintal, the middle of 7 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in October.

Typical costs are about ₹52,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.