Pear
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Sold at 2 mandis in your district.
₹1.0 lakh–₹1.5 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 4
After typical costs: ₹54,000–₹1.0 lakh an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Needs care: Cool in October
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.
Needs about 710 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 680 mm it can use in a normal year, and 540 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 20–35 °C on average, and survives 10–37 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 28 °C / 16 °C
- Jul 28 °C / 18 °C
- Aug 28 °C / 17 °C
- Sep 27 °C / 14 °C
- Oct 23 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 17 °C / 3 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 10 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 7 °C / -3 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 10 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 15 °C / 3 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- May 25 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 28 °C / 16 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Pear: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 5.5–6.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 25 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 4 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (August–September 2026): about ₹5,150 a quintal at mandis in your district.
Prices are usually best in September.
Typical costs are about ₹47,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.
How to make it work
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Calcium Ammonium Nitrate 100%
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 100%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 100%
- Urea 100%