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 660 mm it can use in a normal year, and 530 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 / 24 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 15 °C
• Jan 31 °C / 15 °C
• Feb 34 °C / 18 °C
• Mar 37 °C / 22 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 25 °C
• May 43 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• 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 22 °C.

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

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• 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.

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 (June–July 2026): about ₹8,500 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.