Lime (Kagzi)

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 890 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 810 mm it can use in a normal year, and 670 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 27 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 27 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 27 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 27 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 26 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 22 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 26 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 27 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• May 27 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 27 °C / 19 °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

Likes pH 6.0–6.5. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 43 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.

Mandi price through the year (December 2025–May 2026, July–November 2026): about ₹5,500 a quintal across India's mandis.

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 ₹1.7 lakh a year after typical costs.

Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in October.

Typical costs are about ₹88,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.