Pineapple

Planted once, harvested year after year.

Check it on your land
Season
Whole year
100% of its area.
Water
510–560 mm
over its season
Temperature
21–30 °C
0° survives 10–36 °C 40°

When to sow and harvest

Planted once at the start of the monsoon. It stays for years and gives a harvest every year.

Will it grow on your land?

Water
Season

Pick a place and water to see if it suits your land, and what it earns.

What it needs

Temperature

21–30 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 10–36 °C. Frost hurts it.

Water

510–560 mm over its season
Ernakulam Ri Bhoi Senapati West Garo Hills Thoubal

Worked out where most of it grows. Rain and irrigation together.

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 3.5 to 9.

Soil

  • Takes a little salt
  • Ordinary farm soil is fine
  • 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
May, ₹4,063
Lowest
July, ₹3,200
₹4,063
₹3,200
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

Area grown in India
46,796 ha
2003-04
Average yield
10.9 t/ha
2003-04
Most area
South Goa
Goa
Best yield
South Goa
16.4 t/ha

States that grow it

Latest state figures for fruits, vegetables, spices and plantation crops.

  1. Assam 3,69,603 t (2025-26)
  2. West Bengal 3,46,770 t (2025-26)
  3. Tripura 1,78,544 t (2025-26)
  4. Meghalaya 1,45,832 t (2025-26)
  5. Kerala 1,31,529 t (2025-26)
  6. Nagaland 1,13,960 t (2025-26)
  7. Andhra Pradesh 1,04,349 t (2025-26)
  8. Karnataka 90,219 t (2025-26)
  9. Manipur 89,848 t (2025-26)
  10. Bihar 40,554 t (2025-26)

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.

  1. South Goa, Goa 269 ha
  2. North Goa, Goa 77 ha

Pineapple yield

  1. 16.4 t/ha
No data

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2002-03 & 2003-04.

Where yields are highest

  1. South Goa, Goa 16.4 t/ha

Only districts growing it on at least 100 ha.

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2002-03 & 2003-04.

Across India over the years

Yield (t/ha)

10.9 11.0 11.0
2002-03 2003-04
Latest 10.9 t/ha in 2003-04

Area (ha)

46K 46K 47K
2002-03 2003-04
Latest 46,796 ha in 2003-04

Only years in which most of the usual districts reported are shown.

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2002-03 & 2003-04.