Papaya

Water

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

Needs about 1,610 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 410 mm it can use in a normal year, and 270 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 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 35 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 34 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 22 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 20 °C
• Jan 32 °C / 20 °C
• Feb 34 °C / 21 °C
• Mar 38 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• May 40 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 37 °C / 27 °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.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
• 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 ₹2,650 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹1,450 a quintal, the middle of 2 mandis in your district (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in September.

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.