Papaya

Water

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

Needs about 1,690 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 430 mm it can use in a normal year, and 350 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 38 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 32 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 31 °C / 13 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 13 °C
• Feb 34 °C / 16 °C
• Mar 38 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 41 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• May 42 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 38 °C / 26 °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 zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 149 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 ₹2,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹2,250 a quintal, the middle of 2 mandis in your district (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in August.

Typical costs are about ₹2.2 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.