Sapota (Chikoo)

Water

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

Needs about 1,420 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 480 mm it can use in a normal year, and 370 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 / 24 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 22 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 22 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 15 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 16 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 18 °C
• Mar 37 °C / 22 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 24 °C
• May 40 °C / 26 °C
• Jun 35 °C / 24 °C

Soil

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

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

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 61 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): about ₹1,850 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹4,500 a quintal, the middle of 48 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

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.