Plum

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 940 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,460 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,000 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

Grows best at 18–33 °C on average, and survives 6–36 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 25 °C / 18 °C
• Jul 25 °C / 19 °C
• Aug 25 °C / 19 °C
• Sep 25 °C / 18 °C
• Oct 24 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 22 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 20 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 25 °C / 13 °C
• Apr 27 °C / 16 °C
• May 26 °C / 17 °C
• Jun 25 °C / 18 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: salt, sulphur, zinc and 4 more.

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

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.

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.