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 480 mm it can use in a normal year, and 420 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 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 22 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 23 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 28 °C / 14 °C
• Apr 35 °C / 20 °C
• May 39 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in January can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Soil for Papaya: 5 out of 10 (poor).

Not in the score: nitrogen, organic carbon, pH and 3 more.

• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0. We have no pH figures for this place.

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 (March–April 2026, August 2026): about ₹3,900 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹3,500 a quintal, the middle of 34 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in March.

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.