Mango

Water

Rain falls about 6 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,020 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 740 mm it can use in a normal year, and 650 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 31 °C / 20 °C
• Jul 27 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 27 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 27 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 25 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 17 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 16 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 24 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 30 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• May 32 °C / 18 °C
• Jun 31 °C / 20 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in December can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Soil for Mango: 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 20 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 4 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

On rain alone it gets about 72% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 72% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (May–June 2026): about ₹2,850 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in April.

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.