Papaya

Water

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

Needs about 1,540 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 320 mm it can use in a normal year, and 270 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 / 26 °C
• Sep 35 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 24 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 21 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 25 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 32 °C / 16 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
• May 42 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 40 °C / 28 °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: 7 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 34 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 ₹2,375 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹2,700 a quintal, the middle of 7 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in September.

Typical costs are about ₹52,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.