The papaya orchards were selected for the present investigation from Mauda and Nagpur tahsils of Nagpur districts and Selu Tahsil from Wardha district. Soil of the papaya orchards were shallow to deep, calcareous, clayey to sandy clay loam in texture having fairly good physical and chemical properties suitable for papaya orchards. The soils are slightly to moderately alkaline and calcareous with CaCO3 increasing with depth. The Khapri and Mathni soils are grouped under Typic Haplusterts and Gaimukh, Wadi, and Kondamendi orchard are grouped under Typic Haplusteps. The higher clay content, CaCO3, and poor drainage, of deep shrink-well soils limit the productivity of papaya. Soil nutrient status indicated that available N, P, Zn and Fe were low to deficient while other nutrient were medium to high sufficient leaf nutritional status showed that P, Zn, Cu and Fe were above the critical limit poor supply of N, P, Fe and Zn from soil as indicated by their content below the critical limit in leaf may be reason for high calcium carbonate in all the pedons and low to medium fruit yield of papaya. Best response with respect to number of fruit produced per plant, yield per plant as well as yield per hectare was obtained by higher level of soil and leaf nutrient status or well drained and good management practices in soils. The total soluble solids, reducing sugar and non-reducing sugar contents of fruits increased at higher levels of potassium and phosphorus and higher doses of nitrogen, however, adversely affected the fruit quality.