Lemon
Holds the land all year
Counted with lime in government figures. Priced from mandis across India.
₹1.8 lakh–₹2.7 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 3
After typical costs: ₹77,000–₹1.7 lakh an acre a year
- Needs care: Risky: 4 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Not known: No soil data
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 4 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 970 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 820 mm it can use in a normal year, and 650 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 29 °C / 21 °C
- Jul 29 °C / 22 °C
- Aug 29 °C / 22 °C
- Sep 29 °C / 21 °C
- Oct 28 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 25 °C / 13 °C
- Dec 22 °C / 9 °C
- Jan 22 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 25 °C / 10 °C
- Mar 29 °C / 13 °C
- Apr 30 °C / 16 °C
- May 30 °C / 19 °C
- Jun 29 °C / 21 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Likes pH 6.5–7.0. We have no pH figures for this place.
Money
Yield: about 43 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.
On rain alone it gets about 84% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 84% of this yield.
Mandi price through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹6,250 a quintal across India's mandis.
This week: about ₹7,500 a quintal, the middle of 145 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹1.7 lakh a year after typical costs.
- ₹3,030 2021
- ₹4,050 2022
- ₹3,710 2023
- ₹6,000 2024
- ₹4,410 2025
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 ₹1.0 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.