Papaya

Water

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

Needs about 1,030 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 570 mm it can use in a normal year, and 500 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 27 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 24 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 24 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 24 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 17 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 14 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 12 °C / 2 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 15 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• May 27 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 27 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)

Nights in November can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 156 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

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 ₹2,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹2,000 a quintal, the middle of 6 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in December.

Typical costs are about ₹2.3 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.