Sapota (Chikoo)

Water

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

Needs about 1,280 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 490 mm it can use in a normal year, and 360 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 30 °C / 21 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 20 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 20 °C
• Sep 28 °C / 20 °C
• Oct 28 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 27 °C / 16 °C
• Jan 28 °C / 15 °C
• Feb 31 °C / 17 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 34 °C / 21 °C
• May 34 °C / 22 °C
• Jun 30 °C / 21 °C

Soil

Soil for Sapota (Chikoo): 6 out of 10 (okay).

• 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 48 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–November 2026): about ₹3,250 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹3,500 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in February.

Typical costs are about ₹92,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.