Orange (Mandarin, Kinnow)
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹3.5 lakh–₹5.3 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 4
After typical costs: ₹2.5 lakh–₹4.3 lakh an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.
Needs about 940 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 970 mm it can use in a normal year, and 690 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 23–34 °C on average, and survives 12–38 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 26 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 24 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 25 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 26 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 27 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 27 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 27 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 27 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 29 °C / 18 °C
- Mar 30 °C / 20 °C
- Apr 30 °C / 21 °C
- May 29 °C / 21 °C
- Jun 26 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Orange (Mandarin, Kinnow): 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen and sulphur.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 6.0–6.8.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 53 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 at last season's harvest (December 2025–February 2026): about ₹8,250 a quintal across mandis in your state.
- ₹5,680 2021
- ₹6,210 2022
- ₹6,500 2023
- ₹6,380 2024
- ₹8,330 2025
Prices are usually best in July.
Typical costs are about ₹99,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.