Lime (Kagzi)

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 940 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 970 mm it can use in a normal year, and 690 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 26–32 °C on average, and survives 13–38 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 26 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 24 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 25 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 26 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 27 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 27 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 27 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 27 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 29 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 30 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 30 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• May 29 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 26 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Lime (Kagzi): 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen and sulphur.

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

Likes pH 6.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 10 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 3 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

Mandi price through the year (December 2025–May 2026, July–November 2026): about ₹8,500 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹10,700 a quintal, the middle of 3 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹87,000 a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in September.

Typical costs are about ₹20,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.