Apple

Water

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

Needs about 1,360 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 330 mm it can use in a normal year, and 270 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 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 36 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 35 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 34 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 24 °C / 8 °C
• Jan 21 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 25 °C / 10 °C
• Mar 32 °C / 16 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
• May 42 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 40 °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 14 °C.

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

Soil

Soil for Apple: 7 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, 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 ₹5,250 a quintal at mandis in your district.

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.