Lime (Kagzi)

Water

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

Needs about 1,220 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 410 mm it can use in a normal year, and 340 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 34 °C / 23 °C
• Jul 29 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 29 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 29 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 31 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 30 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 29 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 29 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 32 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 36 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 23 °C
• May 40 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 34 °C / 23 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• 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.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 6.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 45 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 2025–May 2026, July–November 2026): about ₹5,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹6,500 a quintal, the middle of 20 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in September.

Typical costs are about ₹91,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.