Mango

Planted once, harvested year after year.

Check it on your land
Season
Whole year
100% of its area.
Water
1,190–1,220 mm
of water over its season (rain plus irrigation)
Grows best at
24–30 °C
0 °C survives 8–48 °C 40 °C

When to sow and harvest

Planted once, usually at the start of the rains. It stays for years: the first real harvest comes after about 4 years, then one every year.

Will it grow on your land?

Theni Tamil Nadu
Water
Season

Won't work: too dry without irrigation

Mango

Holds the land all year

No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across your state.

Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on

  • Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
  • Suits: Ideal temperatures
  • Needs care: Soil 7/10
Why, and how to make it work

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 1,320 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 730 mm it can use in a normal year, and 440 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 34 °C / 24 °C
  • Jul 33 °C / 24 °C
  • Aug 33 °C / 23 °C
  • Sep 33 °C / 23 °C
  • Oct 32 °C / 23 °C
  • Nov 30 °C / 22 °C
  • Dec 30 °C / 21 °C
  • Jan 30 °C / 21 °C
  • Feb 32 °C / 21 °C
  • Mar 34 °C / 23 °C
  • Apr 35 °C / 24 °C
  • May 35 °C / 25 °C
  • Jun 34 °C / 24 °C

Soil

Soil for Mango: 7 out of 10 (okay).

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

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

How the soil score works

Money

Yield: about 27 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.

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (May–June 2026): about ₹3,121 a quintal across mandis in your state.

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.

How to make it work

  • 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 86% of local fields of this crop get it.

  • 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.

  • Short of sulphur Your soil is likely short of sulphur.

    Use single super phosphate instead of DAP, or add about 100 kg of gypsum per acre before sowing.

    About 12% of local fields of this crop get it.

  • 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.

What local farmers put on it (share of fields):

  • Muriate of Potash (MOP) 87%
  • Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 86%
  • Urea 85%
  • Calcium Ammonium Nitrate 12%
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What it needs

Temperature

24–30 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 8–48 °C. Frost hurts it.

Water

1,190–1,220 mm over its season

Rain and irrigation together, worked out where most of it grows:

South Goa North Goa

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 4.3 to 8.5.

Soil

  • No salty soil
  • Ordinary farm soil is fine
  • K Needs plenty of potassium, zinc and boron
How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°); TerraClimate 1991–2020 temperature normals (about 4 km), where each district's villages are.

Fertiliser for each tree

Draft: check with your Krishi Vigyan Kendra

For most fields

Nitrogen
1,000 g
per tree, each year
Phosphate
500 g
per tree, each year
Potash
1,000 g
per tree, each year

For a bearing tree (10 years or older), once a year after harvest; a young tree gets a tenth of this for each year of age

If your soil card says a nutrient is low, add about a quarter more of it.

Watch out for

Draft: check with your Krishi Vigyan Kendra
  • Mango hopper
    Pest

    Look for

    Tiny insects jump off the flowers; flowers dry and drop; leaves sticky with black mould.

    What to do first

    Prune to let in light; spray at the flower-bud stage as your KVK advises.

  • Powdery mildew
    Disease

    Look for

    White powder on flowers and young fruit; flowers drop.

    What to do first

    Spray wettable sulphur at flowering. Follow the label or your KVK for the dose.

  • Fruit fly
    Pest

    Look for

    Ripening fruit rots from small punctures; maggots inside.

    What to do first

    Collect and destroy fallen fruit; hang methyl eugenol traps.

  • Anthracnose
    Disease

    Look for

    Black spots on leaves, flowers and fruit; fruit rots after picking.

    What to do first

    Cut out dead twigs; spray carbendazim or a copper fungicide before flowering and before harvest. Follow the label or your KVK for the dose.

What an acre earns

At India's average yield and a recent price, named below. Your land, water and mandi will differ.

Left an acre, a year, once it bears

₹75,700

Yield India's average
39.1 quintals an acre
× Price harvest price last season (May–Jun 2026)
₹4,125 a quintal
= Income
₹1,61,100
− Costs about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys
−₹85,400
= Left
₹75,700

A good year or field earns about a fifth more, a poor one a fifth less: ₹1,28,900 to ₹1,93,300 income an acre. Costs stay the same either way.

It bears from about year 4: nothing to sell before.

Work it out for your land

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
October, ₹9,000 a quintal
Lowest
June, ₹3,750 a quintal
₹3,750
₹9,000
J F M A M J J A S O N D

Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis: each month's latest price (Dec 2025–Nov 2026).

Latest prices near Theni Today's price across India

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India
60.5 lakh acres
2025-26
Average yield
39.1 quintals an acre (9.7 tonnes a hectare)
2025-26
Most area
Andhra Pradesh
16% of India's

States that grow it

Each state's share of India's production, in its latest year with figures (2025-26). Tap a state to open it.

Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).

Where it grows most

The districts with the most area in recent years. The map colours every district growing it on at least 100 ha by yield; the numbers mark these districts.

No recent district figures for this crop.