Papaya

Water

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

Needs about 1,030 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 530 mm it can use in a normal year, and 500 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 30 °C / 20 °C
• Jul 27 °C / 20 °C
• Aug 26 °C / 19 °C
• Sep 26 °C / 18 °C
• Oct 24 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 20 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 16 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 13 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 16 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 26 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• May 30 °C / 18 °C
• Jun 30 °C / 20 °C

Nights in December can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

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

Not in the score: sulphur and boron.

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

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 38 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 ₹4,475 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹4,775 a quintal, the middle of 2 mandis in your district (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in July.

Typical costs are about ₹57,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.