Apple
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across India.
₹1.9 lakh–₹2.9 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 5
After typical costs: ₹79,000–₹1.7 lakh an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough, even in a dry year.
Needs about 920 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,260 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,030 mm in a dry year.
Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.
Temperature
Grows best at 14–27 °C on average, and survives 8–33 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 25 °C / 17 °C
- Jul 25 °C / 18 °C
- Aug 25 °C / 18 °C
- Sep 25 °C / 17 °C
- Oct 23 °C / 14 °C
- Nov 21 °C / 9 °C
- Dec 18 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 17 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 19 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 21 °C / 9 °C
- Apr 23 °C / 12 °C
- May 24 °C / 15 °C
- Jun 25 °C / 17 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Apple: 8 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
- Most fields here are short of sulphur.
Likes pH 6.0–7.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 30 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 5 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.
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). At that price an acre would leave about ₹1.1 lakh a year after typical costs.
- ₹7,380 2021
- ₹6,740 2022
- ₹6,900 2023
- ₹7,510 2024
- ₹8,210 2025
Prices are usually best in July.
Typical costs are about ₹1.1 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.
How to make it work
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Short of nitrogen Your soil is likely short of nitrogen.
Add about a quarter more urea than the usual dose, in two or three splits. A pulse crop in rotation also adds nitrogen.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
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Short of sulphur Your soil is likely short of sulphur.
Use single super phosphate instead of DAP, or add about 100 kg of gypsum per acre before sowing.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.