Papaya

Water

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

Needs about 1,440 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 250 mm it can use in a normal year, and 150 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 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 36 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 34 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 23 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 31 °C / 16 °C
• Apr 37 °C / 22 °C
• May 40 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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 (June–November 2026): about ₹2,250 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 October.

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.