Pineapple

Water

Rain falls about 2 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 580 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 490 mm it can use in a normal year, and 350 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 35 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 23 °C
• Nov 33 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 14 °C
• Jan 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 30 °C / 15 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 36 °C / 23 °C
• May 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 35 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Pineapple: 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• It copes with the salt here.
• 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 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 84% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 84% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (July–September 2026): about ₹4,500 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in October.

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.