Peach

Water

Rain falls about 9 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,250 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 810 mm it can use in a normal year, and 670 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 36 °C / 25 °C
• Jul 30 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 30 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 29 °C / 14 °C
• Mar 33 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 23 °C
• May 40 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 36 °C / 25 °C

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 14 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 18 °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).

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

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.