Sapota (Chikoo)

Water

Rain falls about 10 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,200 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 730 mm it can use in a normal year, and 610 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 32 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 26 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 25 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 22 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 20 °C
• Jan 29 °C / 20 °C
• Feb 31 °C / 21 °C
• Mar 33 °C / 24 °C
• Apr 35 °C / 26 °C
• May 37 °C / 28 °C
• Jun 36 °C / 27 °C

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm 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 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.