Plum

Water

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

Needs about 1,220 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 700 mm it can use in a normal year, and 600 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 37 °C / 26 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 30 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 13 °C
• Dec 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 23 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 27 °C / 13 °C
• Mar 32 °C / 17 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 22 °C
• May 40 °C / 26 °C
• Jun 37 °C / 26 °C

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 14 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 16 °C.

Soil

Soil for Plum: 8 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.
• 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 ₹7,300 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.