Plum
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 your state.
₹43,000–₹64,000
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 3
After typical costs: ₹26,000–₹47,000 an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Needs care: Cool in October
- Suits: Soil 9/10
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 840 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 800 mm it can use in a normal year, and 660 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 29 °C / 18 °C
- Jul 26 °C / 18 °C
- Aug 25 °C / 17 °C
- Sep 25 °C / 16 °C
- Oct 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 15 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 11 °C / 2 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 14 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 24 °C / 12 °C
- May 28 °C / 16 °C
- Jun 29 °C / 18 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Plum: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: sulphur, zinc, iron and 3 more.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 5.5–6.1.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 6.6 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 3 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (May–July 2026): about ₹8,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.
Prices are usually best in May.
Typical costs are about ₹16,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.