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 India.
₹2.4 lakh–₹3.6 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 2
After typical costs: ₹95,000–₹2.1 lakh an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough, even in a dry year.
Needs about 580 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 800 mm it can use in a normal year, and 700 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 37 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 30 °C / 24 °C
- Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 30 °C / 23 °C
- Oct 30 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 27 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 28 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 33 °C / 18 °C
- Apr 38 °C / 22 °C
- May 40 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 37 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Pineapple: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
- Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
Likes pH 4.5–6.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 66 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).
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 ₹4,500 a quintal across India's mandis.
- ₹2,990 2021
- ₹3,240 2022
- ₹3,590 2023
- ₹4,250 2024
- ₹4,050 2025
Prices are usually best in October.
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 nitrogen Your soil is likely short of nitrogen.
Add about a quarter more urea than the usual dose, in two or three splits. A pulse crop in rotation also adds nitrogen.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.