Lime (Kagzi)

Water

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

Needs about 890 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,070 mm it can use in a normal year, and 700 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 27 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 27 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 27 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 27 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 26 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 23 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 23 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 27 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 28 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• May 28 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 27 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Lime (Kagzi): 6 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: organic carbon.

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 6.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 43 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 ₹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 ₹1.7 lakh a year after typical costs.

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 ₹88,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.