Papaya

Water

Rain falls about 8 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,240 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 880 mm it can use in a normal year, and 820 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

Grows best at 21–30 °C on average, and survives 12–44 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 31 °C / 25 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 23 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 24 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 27 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 31 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 32 °C / 22 °C
• May 32 °C / 23 °C
• Jun 31 °C / 25 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: sulphur.

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

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 32 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

On rain alone it gets about 71% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 71% of this yield.

Mandi price through the year (March 2025–February 2026): about ₹4,375 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹3,250 a quintal, the middle of 135 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹26,000 a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in August.

Typical costs are about ₹48,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.