Pear
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.
₹1.8 lakh–₹2.7 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 4
After typical costs: ₹1.1 lakh–₹2.0 lakh an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- 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
Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.
Needs about 1,170 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,100 mm it can use in a normal year, and 860 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 34 °C / 27 °C
- Jul 32 °C / 26 °C
- Aug 32 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 32 °C / 26 °C
- Oct 32 °C / 24 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 19 °C
- Dec 26 °C / 15 °C
- Jan 25 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 29 °C / 17 °C
- Mar 33 °C / 22 °C
- Apr 35 °C / 25 °C
- May 35 °C / 26 °C
- Jun 34 °C / 27 °C
It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 13 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 19 °C.
Soil
Soil for Pear: 8 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Salt in the soil here can harm 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.
Likes pH 5.5–6.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
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.
- ₹5,160 2021
- ₹3,940 2022
- ₹5,380 2023
- ₹5,550 2024
- ₹6,850 2025
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.