Lemon

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 1,240 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 590 mm it can use in a normal year, and 460 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 / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 33 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 31 °C / 12 °C
• Jan 28 °C / 11 °C
• Feb 32 °C / 14 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• May 41 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 37 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: salt.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of iron, 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 61 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.

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

Mandi price through the year (March–October 2025, February 2026): about ₹3,500 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹4,000 a quintal, the middle of 11 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in May.

Typical costs are about ₹1.5 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.