Apple

Water

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

Needs about 1,240 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 250 mm it can use in a normal year, and 200 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 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 36 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 34 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 33 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 11 °C
• Dec 21 °C / 7 °C
• Jan 18 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 22 °C / 9 °C
• Mar 28 °C / 13 °C
• Apr 35 °C / 18 °C
• May 40 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

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

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.

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 ₹6,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹6,900 a quintal, the middle of 48 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in March.

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.