Custard Apple

Water

Rain falls about 8 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,350 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,000 mm it can use in a normal year, and 760 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 38 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 23 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 29 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 32 °C / 16 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• May 42 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 38 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• Soil here is often more acidic than it likes.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 7.0–8.0.

Money

Yield: about 16 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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 ₹4,900 a quintal, the middle of 3 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹30,000 a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in April.

Typical costs are about ₹29,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.