Lime (Kagzi)

Water

Rain falls about 7 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,160 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 820 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 37 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 35 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 34 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 23 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 30 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 32 °C / 21 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 23 °C
• Apr 36 °C / 26 °C
• May 38 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 37 °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 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 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.

On rain alone it gets about 70% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 70% of this yield.

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). At that price an acre would leave about ₹1.3 lakh a year after typical costs.

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.