Mango

Planted once, harvested year after year.

Check it on your land

Season

Whole year

100% of its area.

Water

1,260–1,370 mm

over its season

Temperature

24–30 °C

0° survives 8–48 °C 40°

When to sow and harvest

Planted once at the start of the monsoon. It stays for years and gives a harvest every year.

Will it grow on your land?

Pick a place and water to see if it suits your land, and what it earns.

What it needs

Temperature

24–30 °C

best 24–30° 8° 48°

0 °C40 °C

Survives 8–48 °C.

Water

1,260–1,370 mm over its season

Krishna Chittoor Kolar Ratnagiri Vizianagaram

Worked out where most of it grows. Rain and irrigation together.

Soil pH

best 5.5–7.5

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 4.3 to 8.5.

Soil

No salty soil
Ordinary farm soil is fine
K Needs plenty of potassium, zinc and boron

How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°).

Fertiliser for one acre

Draft: check with your KVK

Nitrogen

1,000 g

per tree, each year

Phosphate

500 g

per tree, each year

Potash

1,000 g

per tree, each year

For a bearing tree (10 years or older), once a year after harvest; a young tree gets a tenth of this for each year of age

Give the DAP and MOP at sowing, and the urea in two or three doses. If your soil card says a nutrient is low, add about a quarter more of it.

Watch out for

Draft: check with your KVK

Mango hopper

Pest

Look for Tiny insects jump off the flowers; flowers dry and drop; leaves sticky with black mould.

First Prune to let in light; spray at the flower-bud stage as your KVK advises.
Powdery mildew

Disease

Look for White powder on flowers and young fruit; flowers drop.

First Spray wettable sulphur at flowering. Follow the label or your KVK for the dose.
Fruit fly

Pest

Look for Ripening fruit rots from small punctures; maggots inside.

First Collect and destroy fallen fruit; hang methyl eugenol traps.
Anthracnose

Disease

Look for Black spots on leaves, flowers and fruit; fruit rots after picking.

First Cut out dead twigs; spray carbendazim or a copper fungicide before flowering and before harvest. Follow the label or your KVK for the dose.

Mandi price, month by month

Best month

February, ₹7,454

Lowest

July, ₹3,000

₹7,454

₹3,000

JJan FFeb MMar AApr MMay JJun JJul AAug SSep OOct NNov DDec

Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis.

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India: 8,35,165 ha; 2003-04
Average yield: 3.7 t/ha; 2003-04
Most area: South Goa; Goa
Best yield: North Goa; 2.0 t/ha

States that grow it

Latest state figures for fruits, vegetables, spices and plantation crops.

Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).

Districts with the most area (recent figures)

The map colours each district by yield, for districts growing it on at least 100 ha.

Mango yield

1.8 t/ha
2.0 t/ha

No data

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2002-03 & 2003-04.

Where yields are highest

Only districts growing it on at least 100 ha.

Across India over the years

Yield (t/ha)

3.7 4.1 4.4

2002-03 2003-04

Latest 3.7 t/ha in 2003-04

Area (ha)

626K 731K 835K

2002-03 2003-04

Latest 8,35,165 ha in 2003-04

Only years in which most of the usual districts reported are shown.