Apple

Water

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

Needs about 1,310 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 410 mm it can use in a normal year, and 320 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 14–27 °C on average, and survives 8–33 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 10 °C
• Jan 23 °C / 9 °C
• Feb 27 °C / 12 °C
• Mar 33 °C / 17 °C
• Apr 37 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• May 39 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 12 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 16 °C.

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

Soil

Soil for Apple: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

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

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 38 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 5 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 (August–October 2026): about ₹7,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹6,800 a quintal, the middle of 7 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in June.

Typical costs are about ₹1.4 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.