Pineapple

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 490 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.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

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

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

• Jun 26 °C / 20 °C
• Jul 24 °C / 19 °C
• Aug 25 °C / 19 °C
• Sep 26 °C / 19 °C
• Oct 27 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 19 °C
• Dec 27 °C / 17 °C
• Jan 27 °C / 17 °C
• 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

Soil

Soil for Pineapple: 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 4.5–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 39 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (no recent yield figures for your district).

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

Mandi price at last season's harvest (July–September 2026): about ₹6,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in September.

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.