Lemon

Water

Rain falls about 6 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,070 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 820 mm it can use in a normal year, and 790 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 35 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 29 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 29 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 24 °C / 10 °C
• Jan 24 °C / 10 °C
• Feb 28 °C / 13 °C
• Mar 32 °C / 17 °C
• Apr 36 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
• May 38 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 35 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: phosphorus.

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

Likes pH 6.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 29 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 77% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 77% of this yield.

Mandi price through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹7,400 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹8,400 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹1.2 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 ₹72,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.