Apple
Planted once, harvested year after year.
When to sow and harvest
Planted once, usually at the start of the rains. It stays for years: the first real harvest comes after about 5 years, then one every year.
Will it grow on your land?
Pick your place and water to see:
- Whether Apple suits your land Good fit, possible or won't work, with the reasons.
- What it could earn an acre From yields near you and mandi prices.
- Water and fertiliser it needs Irrigations for your water, and bags for one acre.
What it needs
Temperature
Survives 8–33 °C. Frost hurts it.
Water
The check above works out its water need on your land.
Soil pH
Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 4.5 to 8.
Soil
- No salty soil
- Needs rich soil
- K Needs plenty of potassium, zinc and boron
Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°); TerraClimate 1991–2020 temperature normals (about 4 km), where each district's villages are.
Fertiliser for one acre
Watch out for
What an acre earns
At India's average yield and a recent price, named below. Your land, water and mandi will differ.
Left an acre, a year, once it bears
₹1,60,700
- Yield India's average
- 37.9 quintals an acre
- × Price harvest price last season (Aug–Oct 2026)
- ₹8,000 a quintal
- = Income
- ₹3,02,900
- − Costs about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys
- −₹1,42,200
- = Left
- ₹1,60,700
This week apple sells at about ₹7,550 a quintal: India's middle price at 196 mandis, latest 12 Nov. At that price an acre would leave about ₹1,43,600 a year.
A good year or field earns about a fifth more, a poor one a fifth less: ₹2,42,300 to ₹3,63,400 income an acre. Costs stay the same either way.
It bears from about year 5: nothing to sell before.
Work it out for your landMandi price, month by month
Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis: each month's latest price (Dec 2025–Nov 2026).
Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).
Where it grows in India
- Area grown in India
- 7.5 lakh acres
- 2025-26
- Average yield
- 37.9 quintals an acre (9.4 tonnes a hectare)
- 2025-26
- Most area
- Jammu And Kashmir
- 57% of India's
States that grow it
Each state's share of India's production, in its latest year with figures (2025-26). Tap a state to open it.
Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).
Where it grows most
The districts with the most area in recent years. The map colours every district growing it on at least 100 ha by yield; the numbers mark these districts.
No recent district figures for this crop.