Plum
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across India.
₹1.5 lakh–₹2.3 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 3
After typical costs: ₹88,000–₹1.6 lakh an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough, even in a dry year.
Needs about 920 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,200 mm it can use in a normal year, and 980 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 26 °C / 19 °C
- Jul 26 °C / 19 °C
- Aug 26 °C / 19 °C
- Sep 26 °C / 18 °C
- Oct 25 °C / 16 °C
- Nov 22 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 18 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 23 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 24 °C / 13 °C
- May 26 °C / 16 °C
- Jun 26 °C / 19 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Plum: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: sulphur.
- The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
- Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 5.5–6.1.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 26 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 3 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (May–July 2026): about ₹7,300 a quintal across India's mandis.
- ₹4,060 2021
- ₹4,500 2022
- ₹5,500 2023
- ₹5,800 2024
- ₹6,380 2025
Prices are usually best in February.
Typical costs are about ₹65,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.