Apple

Water

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

Needs about 1,370 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,730 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,330 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 31 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 30 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 31 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 34 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 33 °C / 19 °C
• Dec 32 °C / 16 °C
• Jan 31 °C / 14 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 16 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 37 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• May 37 °C / 26 °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 22 °C.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
• 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 ₹7,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹7,250 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹1.3 lakh a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in May.

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.