Sapota (Chikoo)

Water

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

Needs about 1,250 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 650 mm it can use in a normal year, and 580 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 36 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 33 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 26 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 23 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 23 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 27 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 33 °C / 17 °C
• Apr 37 °C / 22 °C
• May 38 °C / 25 °C
• Jun 36 °C / 27 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Sapota (Chikoo): 9 out of 10 (good).

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

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 ₹3,825 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹4,500 a quintal, the middle of 48 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in October.

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.