Lime (Kagzi)

Water

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

Needs about 1,160 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 360 mm it can use in a normal year, and 270 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 35 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 35 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 23 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 31 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 38 °C / 21 °C
• May 41 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

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 (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).

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 ₹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.