Mango
Planted once, harvested year after year.
When to sow and harvest
Planted once, usually at the start of the rains. It stays for years: the first real harvest comes after about 4 years, then one every year.
Will it grow on your land?
Pick your place and water to see:
- Whether Mango 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 8–48 °C. Frost hurts it.
Water
Rain and irrigation together, worked out where most of it grows:
Soil pH
Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 4.3 to 8.5.
Soil
- No salty soil
- Ordinary farm soil is fine
- K Needs plenty of potassium, zinc 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 each tree
Draft: check with your Krishi Vigyan KendraFor most fields
For a bearing tree (10 years or older), once a year after harvest; a young tree gets a tenth of this for each year of age
If your soil card says a nutrient is low, add about a quarter more of it.
Watch out for
Draft: check with your Krishi Vigyan Kendra-
Mango hopperPest
Look for
Tiny insects jump off the flowers; flowers dry and drop; leaves sticky with black mould.
What to do first
Prune to let in light; spray at the flower-bud stage as your KVK advises.
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Powdery mildewDisease
Look for
White powder on flowers and young fruit; flowers drop.
What to do first
Spray wettable sulphur at flowering. Follow the label or your KVK for the dose.
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Fruit flyPest
Look for
Ripening fruit rots from small punctures; maggots inside.
What to do first
Collect and destroy fallen fruit; hang methyl eugenol traps.
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AnthracnoseDisease
Look for
Black spots on leaves, flowers and fruit; fruit rots after picking.
What to do first
Cut out dead twigs; spray carbendazim or a copper fungicide before flowering and before harvest. Follow the label or your KVK for the dose.
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
₹75,700
- Yield India's average
- 39.1 quintals an acre
- × Price harvest price last season (May–Jun 2026)
- ₹4,125 a quintal
- = Income
- ₹1,61,100
- − Costs about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys
- −₹85,400
- = Left
- ₹75,700
A good year or field earns about a fifth more, a poor one a fifth less: ₹1,28,900 to ₹1,93,300 income an acre. Costs stay the same either way.
It bears from about year 4: 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–Nov 2026).
Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).
Where it grows in India
- Area grown in India
- 60.5 lakh acres
- 2025-26
- Average yield
- 39.1 quintals an acre (9.7 tonnes a hectare)
- 2025-26
- Most area
- Andhra Pradesh
- 16% 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.