Sapota (Chikoo)

Water

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

Needs about 1,430 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 430 mm it can use in a normal year, and 250 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 34 °C / 23 °C
• Jul 30 °C / 22 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 22 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 13 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 12 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 14 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 23 °C
• May 39 °C / 24 °C
• Jun 34 °C / 23 °C

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• 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 36 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 (December 2025–June 2026, September–November 2026): about ₹2,250 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹4,500 a quintal, the middle of 11 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in September.

Typical costs are about ₹71,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.