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 840 mm it can use in a normal year, and 770 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 / 17 °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: 8 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.
• Most fields here are short of phosphorus.

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).

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 (June 2025–May 2026): about ₹4,375 a quintal across mandis in your state.

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

Prices are usually best in May.

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.