Aonla (Indian Gooseberry)

Water

Rain falls about 6 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 920 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 640 mm it can use in a normal year, and 510 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 31 °C / 20 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 21 °C
• Aug 27 °C / 20 °C
• Sep 27 °C / 19 °C
• Oct 25 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 18 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 16 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 24 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 30 °C / 16 °C
• May 32 °C / 19 °C
• Jun 31 °C / 20 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in December can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Soil for Aonla (Indian Gooseberry): 8 out of 10 (good).

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

Likes pH 6.0–8.0.

Money

Yield: about 15 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 ₹2,000 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 November.

Typical costs are about ₹22,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.