Pear

Planted once, harvested year after year.

Check it on your land
Season
Whole year
100% of its area.
Grows best at
20–35 °C
0 °C survives 10–37 °C 40 °C

When to sow and harvest

Planted once, usually at the start of the rains. It stays for years: the first real harvest comes after about 4 years, then one every year.

Will it grow on your land?

Kannur Kerala
Water
Season

Won't work: winters are too warm for it to fruit

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 9/10
Why, and how to make it work

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 1,210 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 2,120 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,890 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

Grows best at 20–35 °C on average, and survives 10–37 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

  • Jun 30 °C / 24 °C
  • Jul 28 °C / 23 °C
  • Aug 29 °C / 24 °C
  • Sep 30 °C / 24 °C
  • Oct 31 °C / 24 °C
  • Nov 32 °C / 23 °C
  • Dec 32 °C / 22 °C
  • Jan 32 °C / 22 °C
  • Feb 33 °C / 23 °C
  • Mar 34 °C / 25 °C
  • Apr 34 °C / 26 °C
  • May 33 °C / 26 °C
  • Jun 30 °C / 24 °C

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 13 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 26 °C.

Soil

Soil for Pear: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

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

Likes pH 5.5–6.5.

How the soil score works

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.

Average mandi price each year (₹ a quintal):
  1. ₹5,160 2021
  2. ₹3,940 2022
  3. ₹5,380 2023
  4. ₹5,550 2024
  5. ₹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.

How to make it work

  • Short of sulphur Your soil is likely short of sulphur.

    Use single super phosphate instead of DAP, or add about 100 kg of gypsum per acre before sowing.

    Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.

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What it needs

Temperature

20–35 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 10–37 °C. Frost hurts it.

Water

The check above works out its water need on your land.

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes slightly acidic soil. Grows from pH 4.5 to 8.3.

Soil

  • No salty soil
  • Ordinary farm soil is fine
  • K Needs plenty of potassium, zinc and boron
How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°); TerraClimate 1991–2020 temperature normals (about 4 km), where each district's villages are.

Fertiliser for one acre

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra for the dose.

Watch out for

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to watch for.

What an acre earns

At India's average yield and a recent price, named below. Your land, water and mandi will differ.

Left an acre, a year, once it bears

₹1,56,300

Yield India's average
34.2 quintals an acre
× Price harvest price last season (Jul–Sep 2026)
₹6,500 a quintal
= Income
₹2,22,100
− Costs about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys
−₹65,800
= Left
₹1,56,300

A good year or field earns about a fifth more, a poor one a fifth less: ₹1,77,700 to ₹2,66,500 income an acre. Costs stay the same either way.

It bears from about year 4: nothing to sell before.

Work it out for your land

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
February, ₹11,250 a quintal
Lowest
August, ₹6,000 a quintal
₹11,250
₹6,000
J F M A M J J A S O N D

Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis: each month's latest price (Dec 2025–Nov 2026).

Latest prices near Kannur Today's price across India

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India
88,819 acres
2025-26
Average yield
34.2 quintals an acre (8.4 tonnes a hectare)
2025-26
Most area
Jammu And Kashmir
40% of India's

States that grow it

Each state's share of India's production, in its latest year with figures (2025-26). Tap a state to open it.

Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).

Where it grows most

The districts with the most area in recent years. The map colours every district growing it on at least 100 ha by yield; the numbers mark these districts.

No recent district figures for this crop.