Mango
Holds the land all year
Grown on 20,432 acres here. Last recorded in 2013-14. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹60,000–₹90,000
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 4
After typical costs: ₹44,000–₹74,000 an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough, even in a dry year.
Needs about 1,150 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,930 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,610 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 30 °C / 24 °C
- Jul 29 °C / 23 °C
- Aug 29 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 30 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 31 °C / 24 °C
- Nov 31 °C / 24 °C
- Dec 32 °C / 22 °C
- Jan 32 °C / 22 °C
- Feb 33 °C / 23 °C
- Mar 34 °C / 25 °C
- Apr 34 °C / 26 °C
- May 33 °C / 26 °C
- Jun 30 °C / 24 °C
Soil
Soil for Mango: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, 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 22 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 ₹3,500 a quintal across mandis in your state.
- ₹4,790 2021
- ₹5,890 2022
- ₹6,430 2023
- ₹5,740 2024
- ₹5,630 2025
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.