Custard Apple

Water

Rain falls about 6 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,110 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 820 mm it can use in a normal year, and 650 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 23–30 °C on average, and survives 11–41 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 29 °C / 21 °C
• Jul 29 °C / 22 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 22 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 28 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 25 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 22 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 25 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 29 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 30 °C / 16 °C
• May 30 °C / 19 °C
• Jun 29 °C / 21 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Likes pH 7.0–8.0. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 39 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 3 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

On rain alone it gets about 74% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 74% of this yield.

Mandi price at this season's harvest so far (September–November 2026): about ₹4,500 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹4,250 a quintal, the middle of 32 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹52,000 a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in April.

Typical costs are about ₹69,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.