Aonla (Indian Gooseberry)

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 900 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,120 mm it can use in a normal year, and 870 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 28 °C / 20 °C
• Jul 27 °C / 21 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 21 °C
• Sep 28 °C / 20 °C
• Oct 26 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 25 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 27 °C / 15 °C
• May 28 °C / 18 °C
• Jun 28 °C / 20 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

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

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 41 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 (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 ₹61,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.