Lime (Kagzi)

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 470 mm it can use in a normal year, and 350 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 37 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 30 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 26 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 24 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 28 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 34 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 38 °C / 23 °C
• May 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 37 °C / 27 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Lime (Kagzi): 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

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

Likes pH 6.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 51 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.

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 (December 2024–November 2025): about ₹3,800 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹6,000 a quintal, the middle of 39 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in April.

Typical costs are about ₹1.0 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.