Custard Apple
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹1.6 lakh–₹2.4 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 3
After typical costs: ₹88,000–₹1.7 lakh an acre a year
- Needs care: Risky: 3 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 3 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,090 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 970 mm it can use in a normal year, and 690 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 26 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 24 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 25 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 26 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 27 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 27 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 27 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 27 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 29 °C / 18 °C
- Mar 30 °C / 20 °C
- Apr 30 °C / 21 °C
- May 29 °C / 21 °C
- Jun 26 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Custard Apple: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen and sulphur.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 7.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 39 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).
A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 3 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.
On rain alone it gets about 89% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 89% of this yield.
Mandi price at this season's harvest so far (September 2026): about ₹5,700 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹4,250 a quintal, the middle of 32 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹77,000 a year after typical costs.
Prices are usually best in April.
Typical costs are about ₹69,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.