Plum

Water

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

Needs about 1,260 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 500 mm it can use in a normal year, and 350 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 39 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 27 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 26 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 27 °C / 13 °C
• Mar 33 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 23 °C
• May 41 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 39 °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 15 °C.

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

Soil

Soil for Plum: 7 out of 10 (okay).

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

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 ₹7,300 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in February.

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.