Orange (Mandarin, Kinnow)

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 950 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,020 mm it can use in a normal year, and 860 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 23–34 °C on average, and survives 12–38 °C.

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

• Jun 26 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 24 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 24 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 25 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 26 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 26 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 26 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 27 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 29 °C / 17 °C
• Mar 31 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 30 °C / 20 °C
• May 30 °C / 20 °C
• Jun 26 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Orange (Mandarin, Kinnow): 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 6.0–6.8.

Money

Yield: about 84 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 ₹3,700 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in May.

Typical costs are about ₹1.6 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.