Sapota (Chikoo)

Water

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

Needs about 1,400 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 320 mm it can use in a normal year, and 210 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 / 24 °C
• Jul 32 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 23 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 21 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 19 °C
• Jan 32 °C / 19 °C
• Feb 34 °C / 20 °C
• Mar 37 °C / 23 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 26 °C
• May 38 °C / 26 °C
• Jun 34 °C / 24 °C

Soil

Soil for Sapota (Chikoo): 8 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.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 81 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (no recent yield figures 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–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 ₹1.6 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.