Custard Apple

Water

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

Needs about 1,250 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 230 mm it can use in a normal year, and 120 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 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 36 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 35 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 34 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 21 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 28 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 35 °C / 18 °C
• May 40 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)

Nights in December can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Soil for Custard 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.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 7.0–8.0.

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.

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 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).

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.