Lemon

Water

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

Needs about 1,160 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,050 mm it can use in a normal year, and 770 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 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 31 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 32 °C / 23 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 14 °C
• Jan 29 °C / 14 °C
• Feb 32 °C / 17 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 39 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• May 41 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 37 °C / 27 °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).

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

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.