Lemon

Water

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

Needs about 1,230 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 470 mm it can use in a normal year, and 360 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 15–28 °C on average, and survives 12–36 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 41 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 32 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 34 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 34 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 13 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 9 °C
• Jan 23 °C / 9 °C
• Feb 28 °C / 12 °C
• Mar 35 °C / 17 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• May 43 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 41 °C / 29 °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 Lemon: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: iron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 6.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 11 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district). Government figures count it with lime.

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 through the year (December 2025, August 2026): about ₹2,820 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹5,500 a quintal, the middle of 10 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in December.

Typical costs are about ₹28,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.