Papaya

Water

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

Needs about 1,570 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 440 mm it can use in a normal year, and 380 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 39 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 27 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 25 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 29 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 34 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• May 43 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 39 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Papaya: 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• 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 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 (February–November 2026): about ₹1,500 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹2,350 a quintal, the middle of 2 mandis in your district (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.