Sweet Orange (Mosambi)

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 1,010 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,320 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,130 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 33 °C / 26 °C
• Jul 33 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 27 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 26 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 23 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 27 °C / 13 °C
• Mar 32 °C / 17 °C
• Apr 34 °C / 22 °C
• May 34 °C / 25 °C
• Jun 33 °C / 26 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Sweet Orange (Mosambi): 8 out of 10 (good).

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.

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.

Mandi price through the year (June 2025, October–November 2025, April–May 2026): about ₹8,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.

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 ₹1.1 lakh a year after typical costs.

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.