Apple

Water

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

Needs about 1,030 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 770 mm it can use in a normal year, and 630 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 35 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 30 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 27 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 23 °C / 11 °C
• Dec 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 16 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 20 °C / 10 °C
• Mar 25 °C / 14 °C
• Apr 31 °C / 18 °C
• May 35 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 35 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen, organic carbon, sulphur and boron.

• The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 20 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 5 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

On rain alone it gets about 75% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 75% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (August–October 2026): about ₹11,500 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹9,250 a quintal, the middle of 24 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹65,000 a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in June.

Typical costs are about ₹77,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.