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 380 mm it can use in a normal year, and 270 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 41 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 36 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 35 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 13 °C
• Dec 24 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 21 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 26 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 33 °C / 16 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
• May 43 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 41 °C / 29 °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: boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• 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 ₹5,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in June.

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.