Aonla (Indian Gooseberry)
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 your state.
₹69,000–₹1.0 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 4
At typical costs, from a loss of ₹6,000 to a profit of ₹28,000 an acre a year
- Needs care: Risky: 3 irrigations short
- Doesn't suit: Too cold in january
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 3 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 820 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 680 mm it can use in a normal year, and 540 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 20–29 °C on average, and survives 14–35 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 28 °C / 16 °C
- Jul 28 °C / 18 °C
- Aug 28 °C / 17 °C
- Sep 27 °C / 14 °C
- Oct 23 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 17 °C / 3 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 10 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 7 °C / -3 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 10 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 15 °C / 3 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- May 25 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 28 °C / 16 °C
Nights in November can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.
Soil
Soil for Aonla (Indian Gooseberry): 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 6.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 51 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).
A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 4 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.
On rain alone it gets about 83% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 83% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (November 2025): about ₹2,075 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹5,500 a quintal, the middle of 34 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹1.5 lakh a year after typical costs.
Prices are usually best in April.
Typical costs are about ₹76,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.