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 260 mm it can use in a normal year, and 150 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 / 28 °C
• Jul 36 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 13 °C
• Dec 23 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 30 °C / 16 °C
• Apr 37 °C / 21 °C
• May 40 °C / 26 °C
• Jun 40 °C / 28 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Likes pH 6.0–7.0. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 50 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

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 (June 2026, August–November 2026): about ₹5,250 a quintal at mandis in your district.

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

Prices are usually best in August.

Typical costs are about ₹97,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.