Sapota (Chikoo)

Water

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

Needs about 1,440 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 560 mm it can use in a normal year, and 440 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 37 °C / 26 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 33 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 31 °C / 13 °C
• Jan 29 °C / 12 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 15 °C
• Mar 37 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 24 °C
• May 41 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 37 °C / 26 °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.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 71 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 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 (January–June 2026, September–November 2026): about ₹3,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.

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 ₹1.4 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.