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 230 mm it can use in a normal year, and 180 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 40 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 36 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 23 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 23 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 29 °C / 14 °C
• Apr 37 °C / 20 °C
• May 41 °C / 25 °C
• Jun 40 °C / 27 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

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

Soil

Soil for Sapota (Chikoo): 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

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–July 2026, October 2026): about ₹6,000 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 December.

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.