Peach

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 1,060 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,550 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,420 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

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

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

• Jun 30 °C / 23 °C
• Jul 30 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 30 °C / 23 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 19 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 24 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 27 °C / 15 °C
• Mar 31 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 33 °C / 22 °C
• May 32 °C / 23 °C
• Jun 30 °C / 23 °C

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 14 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 19 °C.

Soil

Soil for Peach: 7 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: salt, sulphur, zinc and 4 more.

• The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 5.5–6.3.

Money

Yield: about 21 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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.

Prices are usually best in September.

Typical costs are about ₹46,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.