Orange (Mandarin, Kinnow)
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.
₹4.5 lakh–₹6.7 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 4
After typical costs: ₹3.2 lakh–₹5.4 lakh an acre a year
- Not known: No rain data
- Doesn't suit: Winters are too warm for it to fruit
- Not known: No soil data
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Needs about 1,140 mm of water here in its growing months.
Temperature
Grows best at 23–34 °C on average, and survives 12–38 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 37 °C / 27 °C
- Jul 36 °C / 26 °C
- Aug 35 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 35 °C / 26 °C
- Oct 33 °C / 25 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 23 °C
- Dec 29 °C / 22 °C
- Jan 30 °C / 21 °C
- Feb 32 °C / 22 °C
- Mar 34 °C / 24 °C
- Apr 36 °C / 26 °C
- May 38 °C / 28 °C
- Jun 37 °C / 27 °C
It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 23 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 26 °C.
Soil
Likes pH 6.0–6.8. We have no pH figures for this place.
Money
Yield: about 70 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 ₹8,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.
Prices are usually best in September.
Typical costs are about ₹1.3 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.