Lemon

Water

Rain falls about 3 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,100 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 970 mm it can use in a normal year, and 840 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 34 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 30 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 12 °C
• Jan 26 °C / 12 °C
• Feb 30 °C / 15 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 37 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• May 37 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 34 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Lemon: 7 out of 10 (okay).

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 6.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 45 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 89% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 89% of this yield.

Mandi price through the year (March–May 2026, September 2026): about ₹7,750 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹7,500 a quintal, the middle of 147 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹1.9 lakh a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in September.

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.