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 510 mm it can use in a normal year, and 400 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 / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 22 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 14 °C
• Jan 29 °C / 14 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 17 °C
• Mar 37 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 40 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• May 42 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 37 °C / 25 °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.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.

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.

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 (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹6,250 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹7,500 a quintal, the middle of 147 mandis across India (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 April.

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.