Sweet Orange (Mosambi)

Water

Rain falls about 4 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,040 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 880 mm it can use in a normal year, and 800 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 28 °C / 21 °C
• Jul 25 °C / 20 °C
• Aug 25 °C / 20 °C
• Sep 26 °C / 19 °C
• Oct 28 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 15 °C
• Jan 29 °C / 15 °C
• Feb 31 °C / 16 °C
• Mar 33 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 34 °C / 21 °C
• May 33 °C / 21 °C
• Jun 28 °C / 21 °C

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.
• Many fields here are short of iron, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 5.0–6.0.

Money

Yield: about 47 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 84% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 84% of this yield.

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

This week: about ₹3,000 a quintal, the middle of 14 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹30,000 a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in June.

Typical costs are about ₹88,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.