Sweet Orange (Mosambi)

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 890 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 810 mm it can use in a normal year, and 670 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 27 °C / 19 °C
• Jul 27 °C / 20 °C
• Aug 27 °C / 20 °C
• Sep 27 °C / 19 °C
• Oct 26 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 22 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 26 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 27 °C / 15 °C
• May 27 °C / 17 °C
• Jun 27 °C / 19 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in January can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Likes pH 5.0–6.0. We have no pH figures for this place.

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 (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 ₹1.1 lakh a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in June.

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.