Plum

Water

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

Needs about 1,390 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 750 mm it can use in a normal year, and 590 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 38 °C / 26 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 28 °C / 11 °C
• Jan 27 °C / 11 °C
• Feb 31 °C / 13 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 41 °C / 23 °C
• May 42 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 38 °C / 26 °C

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 14 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 19 °C.

Days in May get hotter than it likes. Young plants need shade and water then.

Soil

Soil for Plum: 9 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, 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.

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 ₹7,300 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.