Papaya

Water

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

Needs about 1,530 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 480 mm it can use in a normal year, and 440 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 / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 29 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 22 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 30 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 26 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 25 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 29 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 34 °C / 16 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 21 °C
• May 41 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 36 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

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

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 164 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 (January–November 2026): about ₹1,600 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹2,500 a quintal, the middle of 13 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in September.

Typical costs are about ₹2.5 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.