Lemon

Water

Rain falls about 7 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,060 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 750 mm it can use in a normal year, and 510 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 35 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 32 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 32 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 31 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 21 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 18 °C
• Jan 29 °C / 18 °C
• Feb 31 °C / 20 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 35 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• May 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 35 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Lemon: 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 6.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 81 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.

On rain alone it gets about 71% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 71% of this yield.

Mandi price through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹6,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹3,200 a quintal, the middle of 3 mandis in your state (latest 12 Nov). At that price an acre would lose about ₹14,000 a year at typical costs.

Prices are usually best in September.

Typical costs are about ₹2.0 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.