Plum

Water

Rain falls about 8 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,270 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 920 mm it can use in a normal year, and 810 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 / 27 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 27 °C / 13 °C
• Jan 27 °C / 13 °C
• Feb 31 °C / 16 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 25 °C
• May 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 36 °C / 27 °C

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 14 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 20 °C.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.

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.

On rain alone it gets about 72% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 72% of this yield.

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.