Custard Apple

Check it on your land
Temperature
23–30 °C
0° survives 11–41 °C 40°

Will it grow on your land?

Water
Season

Pick your place and water to see:

  • Whether Custard Apple 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

23–30 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 11–41 °C. Frost hurts it.

Water

The check above works out its water need on your land.

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 4.3 to 8.5.

Soil

  • No salty soil
  • Needs rich soil
  • K Needs plenty of potassium, zinc and boron
How the soil score works

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°).

Fertiliser for one acre

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra for the dose.

Watch out for

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to watch for.

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
February, ₹6,000
Lowest
November, ₹3,250
₹6,000
₹3,250
J F M A M J J A S O N D

Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis.

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Largest grower
Maharashtra
2025-26

States that grow it

Production in each state's latest year with figures (2025-26).

  1. Maharashtra 2.2 lakh t
  2. Madhya Pradesh 1.3 lakh t
  3. Gujarat 82,115 t
  4. Andhra Pradesh 58,380 t
  5. Chhattisgarh 52,693 t
  6. Telangana 13,315 t
  7. Odisha 7,920 t
  8. Karnataka 5,499 t
  9. Rajasthan 4,660 t
  10. Tamil Nadu 2,665 t

Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).

Districts with the most area (recent figures)

The map colours each district by yield, for districts growing it on at least 100 ha.

No recent district figures for this crop.