Peach

Planted once, harvested year after year.

Check it on your land
Season
Whole year
100% of its area.
Grows best at
20–33 °C
0 °C survives 7–35 °C 40 °C

When to sow and harvest

Planted once, usually at the start of the rains. It stays for years: the first real harvest comes after about 3 years, then one every year.

Will it grow on your land?

Ukhrul Manipur
Water
Season

Possible in Ukhrul, with effort

Peach

Holds the land all year

No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across India.

₹1.1 lakh–₹1.6 lakh

per acre a year, before costs

once bearing, from about year 3

After typical costs: ₹50,000–₹1.0 lakh an acre a year

  • Suits: Rain is enough
  • Needs care: Cool in October
  • Not known: No soil data
Why, and how to make it work

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 920 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 930 mm it can use in a normal year, and 730 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 20–33 °C on average, and survives 7–35 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

  • Jun 25 °C / 18 °C
  • Jul 25 °C / 18 °C
  • Aug 25 °C / 18 °C
  • Sep 25 °C / 17 °C
  • Oct 24 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
  • Nov 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
  • Dec 18 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
  • Jan 18 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
  • Feb 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
  • Mar 23 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
  • Apr 25 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
  • May 25 °C / 15 °C
  • Jun 25 °C / 18 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Likes pH 5.5–6.3. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 27 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 3 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (May–June 2026): about ₹5,000 a quintal across India's mandis.

Average mandi price each year (₹ a quintal):
  1. ₹3,500 2021
  2. ₹3,690 2022
  3. ₹3,150 2023
  4. ₹3,850 2024
  5. ₹3,680 2025

Prices are usually best in September.

Typical costs are about ₹60,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.

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What it needs

Temperature

20–33 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 7–35 °C.

Water

The check above works out its water need on your land.

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes slightly acidic soil. Grows from pH 4.5 to 7.5.

Soil

  • No salty soil
  • Needs rich soil
  • K Needs plenty of potassium, zinc and boron
How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°); TerraClimate 1991–2020 temperature normals (about 4 km), where each district's villages are.

Fertiliser for one acre

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra for the dose.

Watch out for

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to watch for.

What an acre earns

At India's average yield and a recent price, named below. Your land, water and mandi will differ.

Left an acre, a year, once it bears

₹77,200

Yield India's average
27.5 quintals an acre
× Price harvest price last season (May–Jun 2026)
₹5,000 a quintal
= Income
₹1,37,300
− Costs about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys
−₹60,100
= Left
₹77,200

A good year or field earns about a fifth more, a poor one a fifth less: ₹1,09,800 to ₹1,64,800 income an acre. Costs stay the same either way.

It bears from about year 3: nothing to sell before.

Work it out for your land

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
September, ₹9,750 a quintal
Lowest
February, ₹1,500 a quintal
₹1,500
₹9,750
J F M A M J J A S O N D

Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis: each month's latest price (Dec 2025, Feb–Sep 2026).

Latest prices near Ukhrul Today's price across India

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India
41,911 acres
2025-26
Average yield
27.5 quintals an acre (6.8 tonnes a hectare)
2025-26
Most area
Uttarakhand
33% of India's

States that grow it

Each state's share of India's production, in its latest year with figures (2025-26). Tap a state to open it.

Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).

Where it grows most

The districts with the most area in recent years. The map colours every district growing it on at least 100 ha by yield; the numbers mark these districts.

No recent district figures for this crop.