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 840 mm it can use in a normal year, and 630 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 / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 31 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 32 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 32 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 31 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 14 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 14 °C
• Feb 34 °C / 17 °C
• Mar 37 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 40 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• May 43 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 38 °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 22 °C.

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

Soil

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

Not in the score: zinc, iron, copper and manganese.

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

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 ₹12,667 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹7,400 a quintal, the middle of 205 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in August.

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.