Peach

Water

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

Needs about 1,400 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 590 mm it can use in a normal year, and 460 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 37 °C / 26 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 33 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 31 °C / 12 °C
• Jan 28 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 32 °C / 14 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 23 °C
• May 41 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 37 °C / 26 °C

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 14 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 20 °C.

Days in May get hotter than it likes. Young plants need shade and water then.

Soil

Soil for Peach: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: salt.

• 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.

Likes pH 5.5–6.3.

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.

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 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 ₹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.