Lime (Kagzi)
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across India.
₹2.0 lakh–₹3.1 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 3
After typical costs: ₹1.1 lakh–₹2.1 lakh an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Needs care: Frost risk in January
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough, even in a dry year.
Needs about 840 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,880 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,430 mm in a dry year.
Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.
Temperature
Grows best at 26–32 °C on average, and survives 13–38 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 27 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 27 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 27 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 26 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 25 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 22 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 18 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 20 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 25 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- May 26 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 27 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Nights in January can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.
Soil
Soil for Lime (Kagzi): 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 6.0–6.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 46 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).
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 ₹5,500 a quintal across India's mandis.
This week: about ₹6,000 a quintal, the middle of 39 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹1.8 lakh a year after typical costs.
- ₹2,450 2021
- ₹3,360 2022
- ₹3,500 2023
- ₹5,000 2024
- ₹3,700 2025
Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.
Prices are usually best in October.
Typical costs are about ₹94,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.