Papaya

Water

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

Needs about 1,640 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 510 mm it can use in a normal year, and 460 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 38 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 14 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 14 °C
• Feb 34 °C / 17 °C
• Mar 37 °C / 21 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• May 43 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 38 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: zinc, iron, copper and manganese.

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

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 265 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 ₹1,425 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹3,250 a quintal, the middle of 135 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in September.

Typical costs are about ₹4.0 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.