Papaya

Water

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

Needs about 1,100 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 520 mm it can use in a normal year, and 450 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 31 °C / 21 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 21 °C
• Aug 27 °C / 20 °C
• Sep 27 °C / 19 °C
• Oct 25 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 17 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 15 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 18 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 23 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 28 °C / 16 °C
• May 31 °C / 19 °C
• Jun 31 °C / 21 °C

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

Soil

Soil for Papaya: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: organic carbon, sulphur, manganese and boron.

• The pH here suits it.

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 ₹4,500 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹5,000 a quintal, the middle of 19 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in June.

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.