Lemon

Water

Rain falls about 8 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,190 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 820 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 38 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 28 °C / 13 °C
• Jan 27 °C / 13 °C
• Feb 31 °C / 16 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• May 43 °C / 28 °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.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 6.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 29 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 ₹7,400 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹8,400 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your state (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 ₹72,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.