Apple
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹2.6 lakh–₹3.9 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 5
After typical costs: ₹1.2 lakh–₹2.5 lakh an acre a year
- Needs care: Risky: 8 irrigations short
- Doesn't suit: Winters are too warm for it to fruit
- Needs care: Soil 7/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 8 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,400 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,010 mm it can use in a normal year, and 780 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 / 27 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 31 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 30 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 31 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 31 °C / 22 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 16 °C
- Dec 29 °C / 13 °C
- Jan 29 °C / 13 °C
- Feb 32 °C / 16 °C
- Mar 36 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 40 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
- May 42 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 37 °C / 27 °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 21 °C.
Days in April get hotter than it likes. Young plants need shade and water then.
Soil
Soil for Apple: 7 out of 10 (okay).
- 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.
How the soil score worksMoney
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 72% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 72% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (August–October 2026): about ₹12,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹9,313 a quintal, the middle of 10 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹1.1 lakh a year after typical costs.
- ₹8,130 2021
- ₹7,630 2022
- ₹10,000 2023
- ₹10,000 2025
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.
How to make it work
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Short of nitrogen Your soil is likely short of nitrogen.
Add about a quarter more urea than the usual dose, in two or three splits. A pulse crop in rotation also adds nitrogen.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
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Short of sulphur Your soil is likely short of sulphur.
Use single super phosphate instead of DAP, or add about 100 kg of gypsum per acre before sowing.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
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Short of zinc Your soil is likely short of zinc.
Mix 10 kg of zinc sulphate per acre into the soil before sowing. One dose lasts two or three seasons.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
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Short of iron Your soil is likely short of iron.
Spray ferrous sulphate, 5 g per litre of water, when young leaves turn yellow.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
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Short of manganese Your soil is likely short of manganese.
Spray manganese sulphate, 5 g per litre of water, on the young crop.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.