Apple

Water

Rain falls about 9 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,080 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 680 mm it can use in a normal year, and 580 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 / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 31 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 31 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 29 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 24 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 17 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 21 °C / 10 °C
• Mar 26 °C / 14 °C
• Apr 32 °C / 19 °C
• May 36 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 37 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: sulphur, zinc, iron and 3 more.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.

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.

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 ₹9,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹9,000 a quintal, the middle of 3 mandis in your district (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in July.

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.