Mango
Holds the land all year
Grown on 22,438 acres here. Last recorded in 2014-15. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹63,000–₹94,000
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 4
After typical costs: ₹47,000–₹78,000 an acre a year
- Needs care: Risky: 14 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Needs care: Soil 7/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 14 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,330 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 630 mm it can use in a normal year, and 490 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 38 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 35 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 35 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 33 °C / 25 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 23 °C
- Dec 29 °C / 21 °C
- Jan 30 °C / 20 °C
- Feb 32 °C / 21 °C
- Mar 35 °C / 24 °C
- Apr 37 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- May 39 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 38 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Mango: 7 out of 10 (okay).
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
- Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 51 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (no recent yield figures for your district).
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 ₹1,550 a quintal across mandis in your state.
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.
How to make it work
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Short of nitrogen Your soil is likely short of nitrogen.
Add about a quarter more urea than the usual dose, in two or three splits. A pulse crop in rotation also adds nitrogen.
About 78% of local fields of this crop get it.
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Short of organic carbon Your soil is likely short of organic carbon.
Add 4 tonnes of compost or farmyard manure per acre before sowing, and plough crop leftovers back in instead of burning them.
Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.
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Short of zinc Your soil is likely short of zinc.
Mix 10 kg of zinc sulphate per acre into the soil before sowing. One dose lasts two or three seasons.
Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.
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Short of boron Your soil is likely short of boron.
Mix 4 kg of borax per acre into the soil before sowing.
Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 78%
- Urea 73%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 17%
- Ammonium Nitrate Phosphate 12%