Plum

Water

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

Needs about 1,430 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 90 mm it can use in a normal year, and 40 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 18–33 °C on average, and survives 6–36 °C.

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

• Jun 42 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 39 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 36 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 38 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 37 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 32 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 27 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 24 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 29 °C / 11 °C
• Mar 35 °C / 17 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 23 °C
• May 43 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 42 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 14 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 16 °C.

Days in June get hotter than it likes. Young plants need shade and water then.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen, sulphur and boron.

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

Likes pH 5.5–6.1.

Money

Yield: about 16 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 3 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 (May–July 2026): about ₹6,500 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in December.

Typical costs are about ₹40,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.