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.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Doesn't suit: Winters are too warm for it to fruit
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,280 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 370 mm it can use in a normal year, and 250 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 31 °C / 22 °C
- Jul 30 °C / 21 °C
- Aug 29 °C / 21 °C
- Sep 29 °C / 21 °C
- Oct 29 °C / 20 °C
- Nov 28 °C / 18 °C
- Dec 27 °C / 16 °C
- Jan 29 °C / 16 °C
- Feb 31 °C / 17 °C
- Mar 34 °C / 20 °C
- Apr 36 °C / 22 °C
- May 35 °C / 23 °C
- Jun 31 °C / 22 °C
It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 14 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 22 °C.
Soil
Soil for Peach: 8 out of 10 (good).
- 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.
- Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
Likes pH 5.5–6.3.
How the soil score worksMoney
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.
- ₹3,500 2021
- ₹3,690 2022
- ₹3,150 2023
- ₹3,850 2024
- ₹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.
How to make it work
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Short of nitrogen Your soil is likely short of nitrogen.
Add about a quarter more urea than the usual dose, in two or three splits. A pulse crop in rotation also adds nitrogen.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
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Short of zinc Your soil is likely short of zinc.
Mix 10 kg of zinc sulphate per acre into the soil before sowing. One dose lasts two or three seasons.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.