Sapota (Chikoo)

Water

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

Needs about 1,300 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 560 mm it can use in a normal year, and 310 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 35 °C / 26 °C
• Jul 34 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 35 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 35 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 25 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 24 °C
• Dec 31 °C / 23 °C
• Jan 31 °C / 23 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 23 °C
• Mar 35 °C / 25 °C
• Apr 35 °C / 26 °C
• May 36 °C / 27 °C
• Jun 35 °C / 26 °C

Soil

Soil for Sapota (Chikoo): 7 out of 10 (okay).

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

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 63 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 ₹4,200 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹4,625 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in December.

Typical costs are about ₹1.2 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.