Mango
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Sold at 1 mandi in your district.
₹1.8 lakh–₹2.6 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 4
After typical costs: ₹1.6 lakh–₹2.5 lakh an acre a year
- Needs care: Risky: 6 irrigations short
- Needs care: Frost risk in January
- Suits: Soil 10/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 6 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,030 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 770 mm it can use in a normal year, and 630 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 24–30 °C on average, and survives 8–48 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 35 °C / 24 °C
- Jul 30 °C / 23 °C
- Aug 29 °C / 23 °C
- Sep 29 °C / 21 °C
- Oct 27 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 23 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 16 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 20 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 25 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 31 °C / 18 °C
- May 35 °C / 23 °C
- Jun 35 °C / 24 °C
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
Soil for Mango: 10 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen, organic carbon, sulphur and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 39 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).
A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 4 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.
On rain alone it gets about 75% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 75% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (May–June 2026): about ₹7,500 a quintal at mandis in your district.
Prices are usually best in August.
Typical costs are about ₹16,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.