Lemon

Water

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

Needs about 1,010 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 920 mm it can use in a normal year, and 760 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 33 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 29 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 30 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 14 °C
• Jan 27 °C / 14 °C
• Feb 29 °C / 17 °C
• Mar 32 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 34 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• May 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 33 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Lemon: 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

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.

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 145 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹2.3 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.