Lime (Kagzi)

Water

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

Needs about 1,180 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 290 mm it can use in a normal year, and 190 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 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 35 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 24 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 21 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 25 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 32 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 38 °C / 21 °C
• May 42 °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

Soil for Lime (Kagzi): 7 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: boron.

• 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.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 6.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 11 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 (March 2025–February 2026): about ₹4,416 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 swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in April.

Typical costs are about ₹23,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.