When to plant Sweet orange in Kintampo South

Bono East, Ghana

The sweet orange is an evergreen fruit tree — plant it once and, cared for well, it feeds your family and earns money for 20–30 years.

Sweet orange in Kintampo South, rain-fed and with irrigation
Measure	Rain-fed	With irrigation
Fit	Favourable
When to plant (establish)	17 Feb 2027 – 19 Mar 2027 opens in 20 weeks	21 Jan 2026 – 1 Jan 2027
Expected harvest	about 21.8 t/ha	about 25.0 t/ha
Bearing cycle	210–360 days per crop once the plant is established. Planting to the first harvest takes longer than one cycle.
Work it takes	86–183 days per hectare, by hand
Rain meets its needs	96%

Rain-fed. These dates are worked out from each place's own rainfall, for a field watered by the season — with irrigation a window can open earlier, close later, or come round more than once a year. Check your own field under What grows, or get the Divisi app for a calendar dated to your farm.

If you only get one chance to plant, aim for around 19 Mar 2027. That is the point in the window where the rains are most reliably established.

This season's rainfall outlook for Kintampo South leans dry, so these dates sit later than the long-run average. Planting on the date you are used to risks germinating into a false start and having to replant.

Planting after 19 Mar 2027 leaves the crop short of season: it runs into the dry months before it has finished filling.

What decides this in Kintampo South

Rain and temperature	96%
The soil	96%
The lie of the land	88%

For sweet orange in Kintampo South, the lie of the land is the tightest of the three at 88%. You cannot flatten it, but you can farm it: plant along the contour rather than up and down, ridge or tie ridges to hold water on the slope, and expect shallower rooting than the crop would manage on flat ground.

The 2026 season in Kintampo South

Rainy seasons	One each year — one chance to plant, so timing carries it
When the rains are expected	March 2026 to November 2026
Rain in a typical year	About 1,031 mm
This season's rain	Leaning dry — September and October look short of rain. Plant at the early end of the window, favour quicker and more drought-tolerant crops, and keep moisture in the soil: mulch, and weed early.
This season's heat	Hotter than usual — about +0.8 °C over the growing months. Heat makes the same rain do less, so a dry spell bites sooner: do not plant late, and shade or mulch what you can.
What that supports	enough rain for one full main crop, warm all year, so nothing but rain ends the season
Ground this covers	3 kinds of ground. The season below is the largest that farms — about 91% of this area.

Agro-ecological zones covering this area
91%	enough rain for one full main crop; warm all year, so nothing but rain ends the season 261 growing days · about 1,080 mm · March to November
6%	enough rain for a long crop, or two in a year; warm all year, so nothing but rain ends the season 273 growing days · about 1,130 mm · March to November
3%	enough rain for one full main crop; warm all year, so nothing but rain ends the season 256 growing days · about 1,090 mm · March to November

last updated 30 September 2026

Frost and pest pressure hold back about 15% of yield here.

What sweet orange needs to grow here

Soil it likes	well-drained sandy loam or loam soil
Soil sourness (pH)	Happiest between pH 6.0 and 6.5
Spacing	600 cm between rows, 600 cm between plants
Feed it most with	nitrogen, potassium, magnesium, zinc and boron

What it takes to grow sweet orange in Kintampo South

Planting material	About 300 plants per hectare
Nitrogen (N)	About 44 kg per hectare
Phosphate (P₂O₅)	About 9 kg per hectare
Potash (K₂O)	About 54 kg per hectare
In the shops	A basal compound at planting — Compound D, or an NPK blend — covers the phosphate and potash. A nitrogen top dressing — urea or AN — goes on once the crop is established.
Hand work	86–183 days per hectare, by hand

These are the nutrients a sweet orange crop of that size carries off the field. What you actually apply depends on what your soil already holds — which is what a soil test, or the app's field records, tell you.

What to watch for

Pest/disease risk — manageable

Grow Sweet orange with a plan, not a guess

Everything above describes Kintampo South as a whole — your own soil, slope and rainfall will shift the dates. The Divisi app works them out for your field, and dates each job that follows.

Or check your field first

Sweet orange in nearby districts

How to grow Sweet orange, step by step Land preparation to harvest — every task, in order

Frequently asked questions

Will sweet orange grow well in Kintampo South?

Kintampo South rates as favourable for sweet orange.

When should I plant sweet orange in Kintampo South?

Typically 17 Feb 2027 to 19 Mar 2027, forecast-adjusted.

Is this exact for my own field?

No — these are readings taken across Kintampo South, not on your field. Soil, slope and rainfall change from one farm to the next. Check your own location to see your own numbers.