Lemon
Holds the land all year
Counted with lime in government figures. Sold at 1 mandi in your district.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Not known: No soil data
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
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 260 mm it can use in a normal year, and 150 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 / 28 °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 / 25 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 33 °C / 20 °C
- Nov 28 °C / 13 °C
- Dec 23 °C / 8 °C
- Jan 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 25 °C / 11 °C
- Mar 30 °C / 16 °C
- Apr 37 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
- May 40 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Likes pH 6.5–7.0. We have no pH figures for this place.
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–November 2026): about ₹4,725 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹7,500 a quintal, the middle of 145 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹2,750 2023
- ₹4,340 2024
- ₹2,800 2025
Prices are usually best in September.
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.