Apple

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 1,290 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 610 mm it can use in a normal year, and 500 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 14–27 °C on average, and survives 8–33 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 31 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 31 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 11 °C
• Jan 23 °C / 10 °C
• Feb 28 °C / 13 °C
• Mar 33 °C / 17 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• May 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 12 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 16 °C.

Days in April get hotter than it likes. Young plants need shade and water then.

Soil

Soil for Apple: 9 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 38 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 5 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (August–October 2026): about ₹8,000 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹7,400 a quintal, the middle of 205 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in July.

Typical costs are about ₹1.4 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.