Papaya

Water

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

Needs about 1,380 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 720 mm it can use in a normal year, and 600 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 30 °C / 23 °C
• Jul 29 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 24 °C
• Dec 32 °C / 23 °C
• Jan 33 °C / 23 °C
• Feb 34 °C / 24 °C
• Mar 35 °C / 25 °C
• Apr 34 °C / 26 °C
• May 33 °C / 25 °C
• Jun 30 °C / 23 °C

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.
• 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 ₹2,825 a quintal across mandis in your state.

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.