Papaya

Water

Rain falls about 8 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,310 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 910 mm it can use in a normal year, and 850 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

Grows best at 21–30 °C on average, and survives 12–44 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 31 °C / 25 °C
• Jul 30 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 25 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 24 °C
• Dec 32 °C / 24 °C
• Jan 32 °C / 23 °C
• Feb 32 °C / 24 °C
• Mar 33 °C / 25 °C
• Apr 33 °C / 26 °C
• May 33 °C / 26 °C
• Jun 31 °C / 25 °C

Soil

Soil for Papaya: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of sulphur.

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 ₹2,900 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹4,500 a quintal, the middle of 6 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in November.

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.