Aonla (Indian Gooseberry)
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Sold at 2 mandis in your district.
₹91,000–₹1.4 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 4
After typical costs: ₹63,000–₹1.1 lakh an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.
Needs about 1,030 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,250 mm it can use in a normal year, and 950 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 / 25 °C
- Jul 30 °C / 24 °C
- Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 31 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 31 °C / 24 °C
- Nov 31 °C / 24 °C
- Dec 31 °C / 23 °C
- Jan 32 °C / 23 °C
- Feb 33 °C / 24 °C
- Mar 33 °C / 25 °C
- Apr 33 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- May 33 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 31 °C / 25 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Aonla (Indian Gooseberry): 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 6.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 19 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 (November 2025): about ₹6,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹5,750 a quintal, the middle of 6 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹81,000 a year after typical costs.
Prices are usually best in March.
Typical costs are about ₹29,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.