Pineapple

Water

Rain falls about 4 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 630 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 470 mm it can use in a normal year, and 390 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 38 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 35 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 32 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 27 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 31 °C / 14 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• May 41 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 38 °C / 27 °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: 9 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.

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.

On rain alone it gets about 74% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 74% of this yield.

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.