Lemon

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 940 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,290 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,080 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

Grows best at 15–28 °C on average, and survives 12–36 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 27 °C / 20 °C
• Jul 26 °C / 19 °C
• Aug 26 °C / 19 °C
• Sep 26 °C / 19 °C
• Oct 26 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 26 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 17 °C
• Jan 26 °C / 17 °C
• Feb 28 °C / 17 °C
• Mar 29 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 29 °C / 20 °C
• May 29 °C / 20 °C
• Jun 27 °C / 20 °C

Soil

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

Not in the score: organic carbon and pH.

• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 6.5–7.0. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 10 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–November 2026): about ₹7,300 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹10,750 a quintal, the middle of 26 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹84,000 a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in November.

Typical costs are about ₹24,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.