Sweet Orange (Mosambi)

Water

Rain falls about 6 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,160 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 900 mm it can use in a normal year, and 730 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 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 30 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 28 °C / 12 °C
• Jan 28 °C / 12 °C
• Feb 31 °C / 15 °C
• Mar 35 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• May 41 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)

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 zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 5.0–6.0.

Money

Yield: about 32 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.

On rain alone it gets about 77% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 77% of this yield.

Mandi price through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹5,900 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 ₹29,000 a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in June.

Typical costs are about ₹60,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.