Apple

Water

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

Needs about 1,200 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,180 mm it can use in a normal year, and 800 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 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 33 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 32 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 32 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 29 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 11 °C
• Jan 23 °C / 10 °C
• Feb 26 °C / 12 °C
• Mar 32 °C / 16 °C
• Apr 35 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
• May 35 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 34 °C / 26 °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.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• 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.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (August–October 2026): about ₹8,000 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹12,000 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹3.1 lakh a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in July.

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.