Pear

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 1,080 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,360 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,240 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 / 22 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 22 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 22 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 28 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 26 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 23 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 23 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 26 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 29 °C / 17 °C
• Apr 31 °C / 20 °C
• May 30 °C / 21 °C
• Jun 28 °C / 22 °C

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 13 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 17 °C.

Soil

Soil for Pear: 6 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: salt, sulphur, zinc and 4 more.

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

Likes pH 5.5–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 34 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

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 (July–September 2026): about ₹6,500 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in February.

Typical costs are about ₹66,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.