Aonla (Indian Gooseberry)
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.
₹4.2 lakh–₹6.3 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 4
After typical costs: ₹3.0 lakh–₹5.1 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 in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.
Needs about 1,100 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,000 mm it can use in a normal year, and 590 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 20–29 °C on average, and survives 14–35 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 35 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 34 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 32 °C / 25 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 24 °C
- Dec 28 °C / 23 °C
- Jan 29 °C / 22 °C
- Feb 30 °C / 23 °C
- Mar 33 °C / 24 °C
- Apr 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- May 36 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Aonla (Indian Gooseberry): 8 out of 10 (good).
- 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 6.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 82 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 4 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025–January 2026): about ₹6,375 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹8,000 a quintal, the middle of 8 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹5.3 lakh a year after typical costs.
Prices are usually best in October.
Typical costs are about ₹1.2 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), 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.
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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.