Custard Apple

Water

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

Needs about 1,480 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 440 mm it can use in a normal year, and 290 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 39 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 36 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 34 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 29 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 33 °C / 14 °C
• Mar 37 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• May 42 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 39 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 7.0–8.0.

Money

Yield: about 41 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 (October–November 2026): about ₹4,500 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹4,250 a quintal, the middle of 32 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in February.

Typical costs are about ₹74,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.