Sweet Orange (Mosambi)

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 1,000 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,190 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,000 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 32 °C / 25 °C
• Jul 33 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 27 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 29 °C / 16 °C
• Apr 31 °C / 20 °C
• May 32 °C / 23 °C
• Jun 32 °C / 25 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Sweet Orange (Mosambi): 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: boron.

• The pH here suits it, though not most crops.

Likes pH 5.0–6.0.

Money

Yield: about 62 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 4 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

Mandi price through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹3,500 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹3,580 a quintal, the middle of 123 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹1.0 lakh a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in June.

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.