Aonla (Indian Gooseberry)

Water

Rain falls about 8 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,230 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 830 mm it can use in a normal year, and 750 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 38 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 13 °C
• Jan 28 °C / 13 °C
• Feb 32 °C / 16 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• May 43 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 38 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in May get hotter than it likes. Young plants need shade and water then.

Soil

Soil for Aonla (Indian Gooseberry): 9 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 6.0–8.0.

Money

Yield: about 48 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.

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025–January 2026): about ₹7,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹5,500 a quintal, the middle of 34 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in March.

Typical costs are about ₹72,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.