Apple

Water

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

Needs about 1,210 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 930 mm it can use in a normal year, and 860 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 31 °C / 23 °C
• Jul 27 °C / 21 °C
• Aug 26 °C / 21 °C
• Sep 27 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 28 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 26 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 12 °C
• Jan 26 °C / 12 °C
• Feb 29 °C / 15 °C
• Mar 32 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 34 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• May 34 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 31 °C / 23 °C

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 12 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 19 °C.

Soil

Soil for Apple: 7 out of 10 (okay).

• Soil here is often more acidic than it likes.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
• 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.

On rain alone it gets about 77% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 77% of this yield.

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

This week: about ₹7,325 a quintal, the middle of 206 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹71,000 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.