Custard Apple

Water

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

Needs about 1,360 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 710 mm it can use in a normal year, and 540 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 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 33 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 20 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 18 °C
• Jan 31 °C / 18 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 20 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 23 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• May 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 37 °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).

• 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 46 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 ₹83,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.