Lemon

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 950 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,080 mm it can use in a normal year, and 880 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 36 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 28 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 24 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 17 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 21 °C / 10 °C
• Mar 26 °C / 14 °C
• Apr 31 °C / 19 °C
• May 36 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 36 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in January can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Soil for Lemon: 9 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 6.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 46 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state). 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.

Mandi price through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹9,250 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹10,750 a quintal, the middle of 6 mandis in your district (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹3.9 lakh a year after typical costs.

Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in April.

Typical costs are about ₹1.1 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.