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 8/10
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 890 mm it can use in a normal year, and 810 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 34 °C / 24 °C
- Jul 28 °C / 22 °C
- Aug 28 °C / 22 °C
- Sep 29 °C / 22 °C
- Oct 30 °C / 20 °C
- Nov 28 °C / 15 °C
- Dec 27 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 28 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 30 °C / 14 °C
- Mar 34 °C / 18 °C
- Apr 37 °C / 23 °C
- May 39 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 34 °C / 24 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Pineapple: 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 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.
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Short of zinc Your soil is likely short of zinc.
Mix 10 kg of zinc sulphate per acre into the soil before sowing. One dose lasts two or three seasons.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
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Short of iron Your soil is likely short of iron.
Spray ferrous sulphate, 5 g per litre of water, when young leaves turn yellow.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.