Lime (Kagzi)

Water

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

Needs about 1,200 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 500 mm it can use in a normal year, and 290 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 35 °C / 25 °C
• Jul 34 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 34 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 23 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 22 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 31 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 33 °C / 21 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 23 °C
• Apr 36 °C / 25 °C
• May 36 °C / 25 °C
• Jun 35 °C / 25 °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 iron, 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 60 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, August–November 2026): about ₹4,750 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹6,000 a quintal, the middle of 39 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in November.

Typical costs are about ₹1.2 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.