Grows best at
15–28 °C
0 °C survives 12–36 °C 40 °C

Will it grow on your land?

Water
Season

Pick your place and water to see:

  • Whether Lemon suits your land Good fit, possible or won't work, with the reasons.
  • What it could earn an acre From yields near you and mandi prices.
  • Water and fertiliser it needs Irrigations for your water, and bags for one acre.

What it needs

Temperature

15–28 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 12–36 °C. Frost hurts it.

Water

The check above works out its water need on your land.

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 5.5 to 8.

Soil

  • No salty soil
  • Needs rich soil
  • K Needs plenty of potassium, zinc, iron and boron
How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°); TerraClimate 1991–2020 temperature normals (about 4 km), where each district's villages are.

Fertiliser for one acre

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra for the dose.

Watch out for

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to watch for.

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
April, ₹7,019 a quintal
Lowest
January, ₹3,331 a quintal
₹3,331
₹7,019
J F M A M J J A S O N D

Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis. Average of 2021–2025.

Latest prices at mandis near you

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Government figures count lemon with lime, so lemon has no figures of its own. See where lime grows.

Where it grows most

The districts with the most area in recent years. The map colours every district growing it on at least 100 ha by yield; the numbers mark these districts.

No recent district figures for this crop.