Plum

Water

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

Needs about 580 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 270 mm it can use in a normal year, and 200 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 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 22 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 22 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 20 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 16 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 11 °C / 1 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 6 °C / -4 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 3 °C / -6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 5 °C / -4 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 9 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 16 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• May 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Plum: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: sulphur and boron.

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

Likes pH 5.5–6.1.

Money

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.

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 ₹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.