Pineapple
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹2.1 lakh–₹3.2 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 2
After typical costs: ₹68,000–₹1.7 lakh an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough, even in a dry year.
Needs about 530 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 930 mm it can use in a normal year, and 860 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 31 °C / 23 °C
- Jul 27 °C / 21 °C
- Aug 26 °C / 21 °C
- Sep 27 °C / 21 °C
- Oct 28 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 26 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 26 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 26 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 29 °C / 15 °C
- Mar 32 °C / 18 °C
- Apr 34 °C / 21 °C
- May 34 °C / 23 °C
- Jun 31 °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, though not most crops.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
- Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
Likes pH 4.5–6.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 60 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.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (July–August 2026): about ₹4,375 a quintal across mandis in your state.
Prices are usually best in July.
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.
How to make it work
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Short of phosphorus Your soil is likely short of phosphorus.
Add about a quarter more DAP or single super phosphate than the usual dose, at sowing.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
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Short of organic carbon Your soil is likely short of organic carbon.
Add 4 tonnes of compost or farmyard manure per acre before sowing, and plough crop leftovers back in instead of burning them.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
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Short of boron Your soil is likely short of boron.
Mix 4 kg of borax per acre into the soil before sowing.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.