Lemon

Water

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

Needs about 940 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 970 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 26 °C / 20 °C
• Jul 24 °C / 19 °C
• Aug 25 °C / 19 °C
• Sep 26 °C / 19 °C
• Oct 27 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 19 °C
• Dec 27 °C / 17 °C
• Jan 27 °C / 17 °C
• Feb 29 °C / 18 °C
• Mar 30 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 30 °C / 21 °C
• May 29 °C / 21 °C
• Jun 26 °C / 20 °C

Soil

Soil for Lemon: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen and sulphur.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, 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 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 ₹8,650 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹10,500 a quintal, the middle of 25 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹81,000 a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in October.

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.