Papaya

Water

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

Needs about 1,330 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 500 mm it can use in a normal year, and 480 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 28 °C / 22 °C
• Jul 26 °C / 21 °C
• Aug 26 °C / 21 °C
• Sep 27 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 28 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 19 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 17 °C
• Jan 29 °C / 16 °C
• Feb 31 °C / 18 °C
• Mar 32 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 33 °C / 22 °C
• May 32 °C / 23 °C
• Jun 28 °C / 22 °C

Soil

Soil for Papaya: 7 out of 10 (okay).

• 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 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.