Papaya

Water

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

Needs about 1,460 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 600 mm it can use in a normal year, and 510 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 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 23 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 29 °C / 14 °C
• Mar 33 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• May 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Papaya: 7 out of 10 (okay).

• The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• 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 62 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 ₹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 ₹93,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.