Custard Apple

Water

Rain falls about 11 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,340 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 810 mm it can use in a normal year, and 680 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 36 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 29 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 22 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 30 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 26 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 25 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 29 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 34 °C / 16 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 21 °C
• May 41 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 36 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Custard Apple: 9 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 7.0–8.0.

Money

Yield: about 49 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.

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 ₹87,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.