Papaya

Water

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

Needs about 1,550 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 470 mm it can use in a normal year, and 450 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 / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 14 °C
• Jan 29 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 32 °C / 16 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• May 43 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 38 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)

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.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 106 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 ₹2,000 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 December.

Typical costs are about ₹1.6 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.