Papaya

Water

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

Needs about 1,480 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 430 mm it can use in a normal year, and 380 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 39 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 27 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 26 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 22 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 27 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 34 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• May 41 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 39 °C / 28 °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 zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of phosphorus.

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 (December 2025–February 2026, April–November 2026): about ₹2,300 a quintal across mandis in your state.

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

Prices are usually best in June.

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.