Orange (Mandarin, Kinnow)

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 920 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,660 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,200 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 23–34 °C on average, and survives 12–38 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 28 °C / 21 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 22 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 22 °C
• Sep 28 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 28 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 25 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 23 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 25 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 29 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 30 °C / 19 °C
• May 29 °C / 20 °C
• Jun 28 °C / 21 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Orange (Mandarin, Kinnow): 6 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: salt, sulphur, zinc and 4 more.

• Soil here is often more acidic than it likes.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 6.0–6.8.

Money

Yield: about 13 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.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025–February 2026): about ₹3,636 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in June.

Typical costs are about ₹24,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.