Aonla (Indian Gooseberry)

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 1,260 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 500 mm it can use in a normal year, and 290 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 39 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 33 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 35 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 32 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 12 °C
• Jan 27 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 31 °C / 13 °C
• Mar 35 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• May 41 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 39 °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): 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 6.0–8.0.

Money

Yield: about 42 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 (November 2025–January 2026): about ₹2,450 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 July.

Typical costs are about ₹62,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.