Orange (Mandarin, Kinnow)

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 940 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,290 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,080 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 27 °C / 20 °C
• Jul 26 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 26 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 26 °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 / 17 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 26 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 28 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 29 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 29 °C / 20 °C
• May 29 °C / 20 °C
• Jun 27 °C / 20 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Orange (Mandarin, Kinnow): 7 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: organic carbon and pH.

• 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 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 (January–February 2026): about ₹8,250 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Prices are usually best in August.

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.