Lime (Kagzi)

Water

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

Needs about 910 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 950 mm it can use in a normal year, and 710 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 32 °C / 21 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 28 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 27 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 26 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 22 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 18 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 16 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 25 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 30 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
• May 33 °C / 20 °C
• Jun 32 °C / 21 °C

Nights in December 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 potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 6.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 17 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–April 2026, August 2026): about ₹3,300 a quintal at mandis in your district.

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 ₹67,000 a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in April.

Typical costs are about ₹34,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.