Amravati district: Warud, Morshi and the largest mandarin area in Maharashtra.

Facts, with their sources

Each fact names the public document it comes from and the year of its data. Where two official sources disagree, both are shown.

• Amravati district holds 48.88 per cent of Maharashtra's mandarin orchard area.Source: Plant Archives 25(1), ICAR-CCRI authors, citing Wankhede et al. 2017 · Date: 2025
• Normal rainfall is 886.4 mm a year, of which 775.2 mm falls from June to September. A 2019 groundwater report gives other normals (942.3 mm and 843.05 mm) in the same document.Source: ICAR-CRIDA, Agriculture Contingency Plan for Amravati District (from IMD); Central Ground Water Board, Amravati District report · Date: data to 2010; 2019
• Soils are medium to deep black soil (regur) and deep brown to red soil, with saline alluvium in the Purna valley.Source: Central Ground Water Board, Ground Water Information, Amravati District · Date: 2013
• Main crops (three-year average to about 2010): soybean 317,600 hectares, cotton 179,400, pigeonpea 102,100; in rabi, chickpea 79,000 and wheat 45,400.Source: ICAR-CRIDA, Agriculture Contingency Plan for Amravati District (District Socio-Economic Abstract 2010) · Date: data to 2010
• Orange orchards cover parts of Achalpur, Anjangaon Surji, Chandur Bazar, Morshi and Warud blocks.Source: Central Ground Water Board, Aquifer Mapping and Management, Amravati District · Date: 2019
• Warud and Morshi talukas are part of the well-known orange belt of Vidarbha: about 9,857 hectares of oranges in Warud and 4,300 in Morshi (2012-13). Normal rainfall is about 930 to 940 mm at Warud and about 825 to 840 mm at Morshi.Source: Central Ground Water Board, Aquifer Mapping Report, Warud and Morshi talukas, Parts I and II · Date: June 2017 (study 2012-13)

Rain in Amravati in an average year

Amravati gets about 973 mm of rain in an average year, 862 mm of it from June to September.

Source: CHIRPS v2.0 rainfall (Climate Hazards Center, UC Santa Barbara; Funk et al. 2015), averaged over the area by VarshaKrishi. It is a satellite-and-rain-gauge estimate, so it differs from official normals, which use other years and stations.