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?

Tirunelveli Tamil Nadu
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.

Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on

  • Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
  • Doesn't suit: Winters are too warm for it to fruit
  • Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 1,320 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 560 mm it can use in a normal year, and 310 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 35 °C / 26 °C
  • Jul 34 °C / 26 °C
  • Aug 35 °C / 26 °C
  • Sep 35 °C / 25 °C
  • Oct 34 °C / 25 °C
  • Nov 31 °C / 24 °C
  • Dec 31 °C / 23 °C
  • Jan 31 °C / 23 °C
  • Feb 33 °C / 23 °C
  • Mar 35 °C / 25 °C
  • Apr 35 °C / 26 °C
  • May 36 °C / 27 °C
  • Jun 35 °C / 26 °C

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 13 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 27 °C.

Soil

Soil for Pear: 8 out of 10 (good).

  • The pH here suits it.
  • Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
  • Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
  • Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 5.5–6.5.

How the soil score works

Money

Yield: about 61 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.

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 (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 ₹1.2 lakh 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 nitrogen Your soil is likely short of nitrogen.

    Add about a quarter more urea than the usual dose, in two or three splits. A pulse crop in rotation also adds nitrogen.

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

  • Short of organic carbon Your soil is likely short of organic carbon.

    Add 4 tonnes of compost or farmyard manure per acre before sowing, and plough crop leftovers back in instead of burning them.

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

  • 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.

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

    Mix 4 kg of borax per acre into the soil 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 Tirunelveli 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.