Sapota (Chikoo)

Water

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

Needs about 1,410 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 520 mm it can use in a normal year, and 470 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 (outside its best range)
• Jul 33 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 35 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 27 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 25 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 29 °C / 13 °C
• Mar 35 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 23 °C
• May 43 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen, sulphur and boron.

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

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

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 (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹3,300 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹3,875 a quintal, the middle of 6 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in September.

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.