Papaya

Water

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

Needs about 1,450 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 430 mm it can use in a normal year, and 350 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 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 33 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 24 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 21 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 26 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 32 °C / 16 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 22 °C
• May 40 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Papaya: 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 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 200 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 (February 2025–January 2026): about ₹2,800 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹1,120 a quintal, the middle of 3 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in February.

Typical costs are about ₹3.0 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.