Lemon

Water

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

Needs about 1,190 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 120 mm it can use in a normal year, and 80 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 41 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 37 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 36 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 35 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 34 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 11 °C
• Dec 23 °C / 7 °C
• Jan 19 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 24 °C / 9 °C
• Mar 30 °C / 14 °C
• Apr 37 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• May 41 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 41 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in December can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Days in May get hotter than it likes. Young plants need shade and water then.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of iron, 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 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 (June–August 2026): about ₹4,000 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 June.

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.