Sapota (Chikoo)

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 1,410 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 460 mm it can use in a normal year, and 330 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 20–34 °C on average, and survives 11–42 °C.

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

• Jun 41 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 35 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 35 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 35 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 13 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 23 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 28 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 34 °C / 17 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 23 °C
• May 43 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 41 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Sapota (Chikoo): 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 50 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 3 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

Mandi price through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹3,300 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹3,875 a quintal, the middle of 6 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in September.

Typical costs are about ₹97,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.