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 770 mm it can use in a normal year, and 710 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 30 °C / 24 °C
• Jul 29 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 24 °C
• Dec 32 °C / 23 °C
• Jan 32 °C / 23 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 24 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 26 °C
• Apr 34 °C / 26 °C
• May 33 °C / 26 °C
• Jun 30 °C / 24 °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 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 (June 2026, August 2026): about ₹3,400 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 August.

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.