Papaya

Water

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

Needs about 1,380 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 570 mm it can use in a normal year, and 530 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 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 26 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 19 °C
• Dec 28 °C / 16 °C
• Jan 28 °C / 15 °C
• Feb 31 °C / 19 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 23 °C
• Apr 35 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• May 36 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 34 °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 71 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 (July 2025, November 2025, January–May 2026): about ₹1,900 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 July.

Typical costs are about ₹1.1 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.