Pineapple

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 650 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 290 mm it can use in a normal year, and 230 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 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 35 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 35 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 13 °C
• Dec 27 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 24 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 28 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 34 °C / 17 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• May 41 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 40 °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).

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 4.5–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 15 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 ₹5,500 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in November.

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.