Lime (Kagzi)

Water

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

Needs about 1,190 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 290 mm it can use in a normal year, and 250 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 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 36 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 35 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 23 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 20 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 30 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 38 °C / 21 °C
• May 42 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in January can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Soil for Lime (Kagzi): 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen, copper and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of iron, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 6.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 46 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

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 (October 2024, February 2025, August–September 2025): about ₹3,750 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 October.

Typical costs are about ₹94,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.