Papaya

Water

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

Needs about 1,230 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 500 mm it can use in a normal year, and 460 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 37 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 29 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 24 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 17 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 26 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 32 °C / 19 °C
• May 36 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 37 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in January 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, zinc, iron and 3 more.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.

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 ₹4,650 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹4,550 a quintal, the middle of 2 mandis in your district (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in October.

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.