Lime (Kagzi)

Water

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

Needs about 1,110 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 660 mm it can use in a normal year, and 520 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 36 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 33 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 22 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 30 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 32 °C / 21 °C
• Mar 35 °C / 23 °C
• Apr 36 °C / 26 °C
• May 38 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 36 °C / 27 °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 potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of iron, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 6.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 81 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (no recent yield figures 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 ₹5,500 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹5,750 a quintal, the middle of 39 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in April.

Typical costs are about ₹1.7 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.