Plum

Water

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

Needs about 1,140 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 500 mm it can use in a normal year, and 350 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 39 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 35 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 21 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 22 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 28 °C / 14 °C
• Apr 35 °C / 19 °C
• May 39 °C / 24 °C
• Jun 39 °C / 27 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Plum: 6 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of phosphorus.

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.

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 ₹7,500 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in June.

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.