Aonla (Indian Gooseberry)

Water

Rain falls about 4 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,120 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 970 mm it can use in a normal year, and 840 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 / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 30 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 26 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 30 °C / 15 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 37 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• May 37 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 34 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Aonla (Indian Gooseberry): 7 out of 10 (okay).

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 6.0–8.0.

Money

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 87% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 87% of this yield.

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 ₹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.