Papaya

Water

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

Needs about 1,460 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 290 mm it can use in a normal year, and 190 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 / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 35 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 23 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 30 °C / 15 °C
• Apr 37 °C / 20 °C
• May 40 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 39 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• 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 5.5–7.0.

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 2024–November 2025): about ₹2,790 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 April.

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.