Sweet Orange (Mosambi)

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 900 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,340 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,020 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

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 28 °C / 21 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 21 °C
• Sep 28 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 27 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 25 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 22 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 24 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 28 °C / 14 °C
• Apr 29 °C / 17 °C
• May 28 °C / 19 °C
• Jun 28 °C / 21 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

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.