Papaya

Water

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

Needs about 1,270 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 610 mm it can use in a normal year, and 550 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 26 °C / 19 °C
• Jul 24 °C / 19 °C
• Aug 24 °C / 19 °C
• Sep 25 °C / 19 °C
• Oct 26 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 26 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 16 °C
• Jan 27 °C / 16 °C
• Feb 29 °C / 17 °C
• Mar 31 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 30 °C / 20 °C
• May 30 °C / 20 °C
• Jun 26 °C / 19 °C

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 283 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 ₹1,500 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹1,800 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in October.

Typical costs are about ₹4.3 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.