Apple

Water

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

Needs about 1,170 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 940 mm it can use in a normal year, and 800 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 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 35 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 33 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 31 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 26 °C / 11 °C
• Dec 20 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 21 °C / 9 °C
• Mar 27 °C / 14 °C
• Apr 33 °C / 18 °C
• May 38 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 39 °C / 26 °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: 9 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 49 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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 80% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 80% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (August–October 2026): about ₹6,900 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹5,469 a quintal, the middle of 13 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹31,000 a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in July.

Typical costs are about ₹1.8 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.