Apple

Water

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

Needs about 1,220 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 520 mm it can use in a normal year, and 340 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 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 33 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 32 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 7 °C
• Jan 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 23 °C / 10 °C
• Mar 29 °C / 15 °C
• Apr 36 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• May 39 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 39 °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 13 °C.

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

Soil

Soil for Apple: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

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 ₹7,250 a quintal, the middle of 32 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in June.

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.