Lime (Kagzi)

Water

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

Needs about 1,340 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 150 mm it can use in a normal year, and 80 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 41 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 36 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 34 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 36 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 38 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 34 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 29 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 27 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 32 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 37 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 41 °C / 22 °C
• May 43 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 41 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Lime (Kagzi): 7 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: nitrogen, sulphur and boron.

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

Likes pH 6.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 51 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 (December 2024–November 2025): about ₹3,800 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 ₹1.0 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.