Pineapple

Water

Rain falls about 4 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 590 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 430 mm it can use in a normal year, and 330 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 21–30 °C on average, and survives 10–36 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 35 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 21 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 27 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 34 °C / 18 °C
• May 39 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)

Nights in December can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Soil for Pineapple: 7 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• 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.
• Most fields here are short of phosphorus.

Likes pH 4.5–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 66 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 2 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

On rain alone it gets about 73% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 73% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (July–September 2026): about ₹3,350 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Prices are usually best in February.

Typical costs are about ₹1.4 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.