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.
₹2.7 lakh–₹4.0 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 4
After typical costs: ₹2.0 lakh–₹3.3 lakh an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Needs care: Very hot in May
- 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 1,170 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,090 mm it can use in a normal year, and 810 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 36 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 30 °C / 25 °C
- Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 31 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 31 °C / 22 °C
- Nov 29 °C / 17 °C
- Dec 28 °C / 14 °C
- Jan 29 °C / 14 °C
- Feb 32 °C / 17 °C
- Mar 36 °C / 21 °C
- Apr 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- May 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 36 °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 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.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
Likes pH 6.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 48 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 ₹7,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹5,500 a quintal, the middle of 33 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹1.9 lakh a year after typical costs.
Prices are usually best in March.
Typical costs are about ₹72,000 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.