Sweet Orange (Mosambi)

Water

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

Needs about 1,220 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 320 mm it can use in a normal year, and 210 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 34 °C / 24 °C
• Jul 32 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 23 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 21 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 19 °C
• Jan 32 °C / 19 °C
• Feb 34 °C / 20 °C
• Mar 37 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• May 38 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 34 °C / 24 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of iron, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 5.0–6.0.

Money

Yield: about 83 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.

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 (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹1,450 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 May.

Typical costs are about ₹1.6 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.