Pineapple

Water

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

Needs about 680 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 440 mm it can use in a normal year, and 290 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 / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 36 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 34 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 12 °C
• Jan 29 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 33 °C / 14 °C
• Mar 37 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• May 42 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 39 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in May get hotter than it likes. Young plants need shade and water then.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, 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.

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 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.