Apple

Water

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

Needs about 1,440 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 140 mm it can use in a normal year, and 60 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 41 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 38 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 35 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 37 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 36 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 31 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 9 °C
• Jan 24 °C / 7 °C
• Feb 28 °C / 11 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 17 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
• May 42 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 41 °C / 28 °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 15 °C.

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

Soil

Soil for Apple: 6 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: nitrogen, sulphur and boron.

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

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 ₹7,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹6,800 a quintal, the middle of 7 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.