Sweet Orange (Mosambi)

Water

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

Needs about 1,120 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 630 mm it can use in a normal year, and 410 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 20–30 °C on average, and survives 13–38 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 37 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 33 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 21 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 26 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 32 °C / 16 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 21 °C
• May 39 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 37 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Sweet Orange (Mosambi): 7 out of 10 (okay).

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 5.0–6.0.

Money

Yield: about 67 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 4 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 (March 2025–February 2026): about ₹3,413 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹3,580 a quintal, the middle of 123 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in April.

Typical costs are about ₹1.3 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.