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?

Old Delhi Delhi
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
  • Not known: No soil data
Why, and how to make it work

Water

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

Needs about 1,270 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 260 mm it can use in a normal year, and 150 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 39 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
  • Jul 36 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
  • Aug 34 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
  • Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
  • Oct 33 °C / 20 °C
  • Nov 28 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
  • Dec 23 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
  • Jan 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
  • Feb 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
  • Mar 31 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
  • Apr 37 °C / 22 °C
  • May 40 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
  • Jun 39 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Likes pH 5.5–7.5. We have no pH figures for this place.

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.

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 (June 2026): about ₹4,250 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Average mandi price each year (₹ a quintal):
  1. ₹8,610 2022
  2. ₹7,120 2023
  3. ₹11,000 2024
  4. ₹8,440 2025

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.

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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 Old Delhi 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.