Lime (Kagzi)
Will it grow on your land?
Pick your place and water to see:
- Whether Lime (Kagzi) 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
Survives 13–38 °C. Frost hurts it.
Water
The check above works out its water need on your land.
Soil pH
Likes slightly acidic soil. Grows from pH 4.8 to 8.3.
Soil
- No salty soil
- Ordinary farm soil is fine
- K Needs plenty of potassium, zinc, iron and boron
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
Watch out for
What an acre earns
At India's average yield and a recent price, named below. Your land, water and mandi will differ.
Left an acre, a year, once it bears
₹1,83,700
- Yield India's average
- 46.3 quintals an acre
- × Price mandi price through the year (Dec 2025–May 2026, Sep–Nov 2026)
- ₹6,000 a quintal
- = Income
- ₹2,78,100
- − Costs about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys
- −₹94,400
- = Left
- ₹1,83,700
This week lime (kagzi) sells at about ₹6,000 a quintal: India's middle price at 37 mandis, latest 12 Nov. At that price an acre would leave about ₹1,83,700 a year.
A good year or field earns about a fifth more, a poor one a fifth less: ₹2,22,500 to ₹3,33,700 income an acre. Costs stay the same either way.
It bears from about year 3: nothing to sell before.
Work it out for your landMandi price, month by month
Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis: each month's latest price (Dec 2025–May 2026, Sep–Nov 2026).
Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).
Where it grows in India
Government figures count lime and lemon together, so the figures below include lemon.
- Area grown in India
- 8.3 lakh acres
- 2025-26
- Average yield
- 46.3 quintals an acre (11.5 tonnes a hectare)
- 2025-26
- Most area
- Andhra Pradesh
- 14% of India's
States that grow it
Each state's share of India's production, in its latest year with figures (2025-26). Tap a state to open it.
Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).
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.