Apple

Water

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

Needs about 1,270 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 470 mm it can use in a normal year, and 350 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 39 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 35 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 33 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 32 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 23 °C / 8 °C
• Jan 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 24 °C / 10 °C
• Mar 30 °C / 15 °C
• Apr 37 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• May 40 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 39 °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 14 °C.

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

Soil

Soil for Apple: 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, 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 6.0–7.0.

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 ₹7,600 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹7,820 a quintal, the middle of 9 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.