Orange (Mandarin, Kinnow)

Water

Rain falls about 3 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 910 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 810 mm it can use in a normal year, and 670 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 28 °C / 21 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 21 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 21 °C
• Sep 28 °C / 20 °C
• Oct 27 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 24 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 21 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 23 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 27 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 28 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• May 28 °C / 19 °C
• Jun 28 °C / 21 °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 23 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.

On rain alone it gets about 89% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 89% of this yield.

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 ₹42,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.