Sapota (Chikoo)

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 930 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 910 mm it can use in a normal year, and 750 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 25 °C / 18 °C
• Jul 25 °C / 18 °C
• Aug 25 °C / 18 °C
• Sep 25 °C / 17 °C
• Oct 23 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 18 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 17 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 23 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 24 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• May 25 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 25 °C / 18 °C

Nights in December can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Likes pH 6.0–7.0. We have no pH figures for this place.

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.

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). At that price an acre would leave about ₹1.3 lakh a year after typical costs.

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.