Papaya

Water

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

Needs about 1,580 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 410 mm it can use in a normal year, and 340 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 33 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 24 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 34 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• May 43 °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).

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of sulphur.

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 (June 2025–February 2026, April–May 2026): about ₹1,870 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 July.

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.