Aonla (Indian Gooseberry)

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 1,070 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,060 mm it can use in a normal year, and 770 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 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 32 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 32 °C / 26 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 23 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 28 °C / 13 °C
• Mar 33 °C / 17 °C
• Apr 36 °C / 22 °C
• May 36 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Aonla (Indian Gooseberry): 10 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 6.0–8.0.

Money

Yield: about 40 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 4 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025–January 2026): about ₹3,563 a quintal across India's mandis.

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 ₹1.6 lakh a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in September.

Typical costs are about ₹60,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.