Papaya

Water

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

Needs about 1,580 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 470 mm it can use in a normal year, and 340 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 34 °C / 24 °C
• Jul 33 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 21 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 19 °C
• Jan 31 °C / 19 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 19 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 22 °C
• Apr 36 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• May 36 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 34 °C / 24 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 279 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 ₹3,350 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹3,625 a quintal, the middle of 8 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in September.

Typical costs are about ₹4.2 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.