Plum
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Sold at 5 mandis in your district.
₹50,000–₹76,000
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 3
After typical costs: ₹34,000–₹59,000 an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- 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 1,000 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,080 mm it can use in a normal year, and 880 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 36 °C / 25 °C
- Jul 32 °C / 24 °C
- Aug 31 °C / 23 °C
- Sep 30 °C / 22 °C
- Oct 28 °C / 17 °C
- Nov 24 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 17 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 26 °C / 14 °C
- Apr 31 °C / 19 °C
- May 36 °C / 24 °C
- Jun 36 °C / 25 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Plum: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
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 ₹9,500 a quintal at mandis in your district.
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.