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 India.
₹80,000–₹1.2 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 3
After typical costs: ₹41,000–₹81,000 an acre a year
- Needs care: Risky: 3 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Not known: No soil data
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 3 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 980 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 840 mm it can use in a normal year, and 610 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 27 °C / 20 °C
- Jul 26 °C / 20 °C
- Aug 26 °C / 20 °C
- Sep 26 °C / 19 °C
- Oct 25 °C / 17 °C
- Nov 23 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 20 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 23 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 26 °C / 12 °C
- Apr 28 °C / 15 °C
- May 27 °C / 18 °C
- Jun 27 °C / 20 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Likes pH 5.5–6.1. We have no pH figures for this place.
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.
On rain alone it gets about 86% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 86% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (May–July 2026): about ₹7,300 a quintal across India's mandis.
- ₹4,060 2021
- ₹4,500 2022
- ₹5,500 2023
- ₹5,800 2024
- ₹6,380 2025
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.