Lime (Kagzi)

Water

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

Needs about 1,220 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 680 mm it can use in a normal year, and 460 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 31 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 30 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 30 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 33 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 37 °C / 22 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• May 42 °C / 28 °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).

Not in the score: zinc, iron and boron.

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 6.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 63 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 (April 2026): about ₹5,000 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 April.

Typical costs are about ₹1.3 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.