Plum

Water

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

Needs about 1,260 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 120 mm it can use in a normal year, and 80 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 41 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 37 °C / 28 °C
• Aug 36 °C / 27 °C
• Sep 35 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 11 °C
• Dec 23 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 19 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 24 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 30 °C / 14 °C
• Apr 37 °C / 20 °C
• May 41 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 41 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

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.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, 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 ₹6,500 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in March.

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.