Custard Apple

Water

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

Needs about 1,270 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 510 mm it can use in a normal year, and 370 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 30 °C / 21 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 20 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 20 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 20 °C
• Oct 28 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 27 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 28 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 31 °C / 17 °C
• Mar 33 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 34 °C / 22 °C
• May 33 °C / 22 °C
• Jun 30 °C / 21 °C

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 potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 7.0–8.0.

Money

Yield: about 32 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 ₹58,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.