Lemon

Water

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

Needs about 1,180 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 640 mm it can use in a normal year, and 490 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 38 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 13 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 10 °C
• Jan 25 °C / 9 °C
• Feb 29 °C / 12 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 17 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• May 42 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 38 °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 iron, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

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 (January–February 2026, May 2026, July 2026, September–November 2026): about ₹2,250 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹4,000 a quintal, the middle of 11 mandis in your state (latest 12 Nov).

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.