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Irrigation for papaya

Planted 1.8 m apart each way and fruiting within a year. An inline lateral down each row keeps the roots moist without the standing water papaya cannot survive.

Suits it best

Drip irrigation

Usual row spacing

1.8 m

Water need

3.5–9.5 mm/day

Water need is the crop’s daily use at full cover over the whole year, at weather stations across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh — the spread is the season and the place.

Why drip irrigation

Planted 1.8 m apart each way and quick to fruit. An inline lateral down each row, and none of the standing water papaya’s roots cannot take.

Inline drip laterals 1.8 m apart, one down each row.

What actually changes the answer

  • One lateral per row at 1.8 m comes to about 2,250 m of pipe an acre.
  • A day or two of standing water can kill papaya. Raised planting and drip together are the safeguard.
  • In the ground all year, so the water source has to carry it through April and May, when use peaks.

How much pipe would papaya need?

Put in your acres and the estimator works it out against this crop’s layout, then prices the parts from our own catalogue at today’s prices.

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What you’d be buying

Drip IrrigationLDPE Pipes

Spacings and layouts on this page are published package-of-practice and state-scheme figures; water need is FAO-56’s crop-coefficient method on published Telangana and Andhra Pradesh weather records. Neither is a design for your field — soil, slope, water source and pump all move them. Send us your crop, acres and pump details and we’ll confirm the sizing before you commit.

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Where these numbers come from

  • PJTSAU (opens in a new tab)

    Telangana’s state agricultural university — the package of practices crop spacings in the state follow.

  • TNAU Agritech Portal (opens in a new tab)

    Crop-wise spacing, water requirement and drip layout references for southern India.

  • ICAR (opens in a new tab)

    Indian Council of Agricultural Research — crop agronomy and regional package-of-practices.

  • Telangana Micro Irrigation Project (opens in a new tab)

    The state scheme’s guidelines: which crops go on inline drip, online drip or sprinklers, and the spacings it funds.

  • FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56 (opens in a new tab)

    The reference method for crop evapotranspiration and crop coefficients that daily water figures derive from.