Mango

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 940 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,880 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,430 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

Grows best at 24–30 °C on average, and survives 8–48 °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 26 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 25 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 22 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 20 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 25 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• May 26 °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

Soil for Mango: 9 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

Money

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.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (May–June 2026): about ₹4,125 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in October.

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.