Pineapple

Water

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

Needs about 640 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 430 mm it can use in a normal year, and 250 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 34 °C / 23 °C
• Jul 30 °C / 22 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 22 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 13 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 33 °C / 14 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• May 39 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 34 °C / 23 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• 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 4.5–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 87 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 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 at mandis in your district.

Prices are usually best in August.

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.