Lemon

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 1,140 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 230 mm it can use in a normal year, and 180 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 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 36 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 34 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 33 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 23 °C / 7 °C
• Jan 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 23 °C / 10 °C
• Mar 29 °C / 14 °C
• Apr 37 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• May 41 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)

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: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 6.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 46 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state). 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 (May–October 2026): about ₹6,500 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹7,800 a quintal, the middle of 11 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in October.

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.