Apple

Water

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

Needs about 1,470 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 710 mm it can use in a normal year, and 470 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 38 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 29 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 32 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 11 °C
• Jan 27 °C / 10 °C
• Feb 31 °C / 12 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 17 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
• May 42 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 38 °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 18 °C.

Days in April 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.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

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 ₹4,319 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹4,500 a quintal, the middle of 19 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

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.