Papaya

Water

Rain falls about 9 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,060 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 640 mm it can use in a normal year, and 590 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 25 °C / 18 °C
• Jul 25 °C / 18 °C
• Aug 25 °C / 18 °C
• Sep 25 °C / 17 °C
• Oct 23 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 18 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 17 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 23 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 24 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• May 25 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 25 °C / 18 °C

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

Soil

Likes pH 5.5–7.0. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 156 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

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 ₹2,650 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹3,250 a quintal, the middle of 135 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in September.

Typical costs are about ₹2.3 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.