Sapota (Chikoo)

Water

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

Needs about 1,360 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 210 mm it can use in a normal year, and 110 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 41 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 37 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 35 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 35 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 35 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 11 °C
• Dec 24 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 20 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 25 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 31 °C / 15 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 20 °C
• May 42 °C / 26 °C
• Jun 41 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)

Nights in December can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 32 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–April 2026, August–November 2026): about ₹4,213 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹6,000 a quintal, the middle of 5 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in August.

Typical costs are about ₹62,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.