Peach

Water

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

Needs about 980 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 950 mm it can use in a normal year, and 710 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 32 °C / 21 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 21 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 21 °C
• Sep 27 °C / 20 °C
• Oct 26 °C / 15 °C
• Nov 22 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 18 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 16 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 25 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 30 °C / 17 °C
• May 33 °C / 20 °C
• Jun 32 °C / 21 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 5.5–6.3.

Money

Yield: about 26 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 2026): about ₹2,500 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Prices are usually best in July.

Typical costs are about ₹57,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.