Apple

Water

Rain falls about 7 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,120 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 800 mm it can use in a normal year, and 700 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 36 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 31 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 31 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 29 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 25 °C / 11 °C
• Dec 21 °C / 8 °C
• Jan 18 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 22 °C / 10 °C
• Mar 27 °C / 14 °C
• Apr 33 °C / 19 °C
• May 37 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 36 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 12 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 12 °C. The district's cooler, higher villages get colder, about 11 °C: enough to grow it there.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• 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.

On rain alone it gets about 71% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 71% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (August–October 2026): about ₹8,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹7,250 a quintal, the middle of 32 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹52,000 a year after typical costs.

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.