Orange (Mandarin, Kinnow)

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 1,160 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,950 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,420 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 34 °C / 26 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 23 °C
• Nov 34 °C / 19 °C
• Dec 32 °C / 16 °C
• Jan 31 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 33 °C / 16 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 37 °C / 24 °C
• May 37 °C / 26 °C
• Jun 34 °C / 26 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Likes pH 6.0–6.8. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 53 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.

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 ₹99,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.