Custard Apple

Water

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

Needs about 1,470 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 510 mm it can use in a normal year, and 420 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 / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 32 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 31 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 30 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 34 °C / 17 °C
• Mar 38 °C / 21 °C
• Apr 41 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• May 43 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 38 °C / 26 °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.
• 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 37 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 ₹5,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹3,975 a quintal, the middle of 18 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in April.

Typical costs are about ₹67,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.