Lemon

Water

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

Needs about 930 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 960 mm it can use in a normal year, and 690 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 31 °C / 21 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 21 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 21 °C
• Sep 28 °C / 19 °C
• Oct 26 °C / 15 °C
• Nov 22 °C / 10 °C
• Dec 18 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 17 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 25 °C / 13 °C
• Apr 31 °C / 17 °C
• May 33 °C / 19 °C
• Jun 31 °C / 21 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in January can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

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

Not in the score: organic carbon.

• 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 17 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 (December 2025–February 2026, April–August 2026): about ₹5,750 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹3,600 a quintal, the middle of 3 mandis in your state (latest 11 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹20,000 a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in April.

Typical costs are about ₹41,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.