Plum

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 980 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,200 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,080 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 / 22 °C
• Jul 30 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 28 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 25 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 23 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 26 °C / 14 °C
• Apr 27 °C / 17 °C
• May 28 °C / 20 °C
• Jun 29 °C / 22 °C

Months in orange are 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. The district's cooler, higher villages get colder, about 13 °C: enough to grow it there.

Soil

Soil for Plum: 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 5.5–6.1.

Money

Yield: about 26 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 ₹7,300 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in February.

Typical costs are about ₹65,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.