Peach

Water

Rain falls about 11 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,390 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 860 mm it can use in a normal year, and 550 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 38 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 32 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 15 °C
• Jan 31 °C / 15 °C
• Feb 34 °C / 18 °C
• Mar 37 °C / 22 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• May 43 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 38 °C / 27 °C

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 14 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 22 °C.

Days in April 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: zinc, iron, copper and manganese.

• The pH here suits it.
• 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.