Lemon

Water

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

Needs about 1,000 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 800 mm it can use in a normal year, and 700 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 36 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 29 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 25 °C / 11 °C
• Dec 21 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 22 °C / 10 °C
• Mar 27 °C / 14 °C
• Apr 33 °C / 19 °C
• May 37 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 36 °C / 25 °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: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• 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.

On rain alone it gets about 79% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 79% of this yield.

Mandi price through the year (January–June 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). At that price an acre would leave about ₹1.7 lakh a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in March.

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.