Coconut
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.
₹24,000–₹36,000
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 5
At typical costs, from a loss of ₹3,000 to a profit of ₹9,000 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 in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.
Needs about 1,510 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,460 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,390 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 22–34 °C on average, and survives 14–38 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 32 °C / 25 °C
- Jul 32 °C / 25 °C
- Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
- Sep 32 °C / 25 °C
- Oct 32 °C / 23 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 18 °C
- Dec 26 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 29 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 32 °C / 19 °C
- Apr 33 °C / 22 °C
- May 33 °C / 24 °C
- Jun 32 °C / 25 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Coconut: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
- Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
- Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
Likes pH 5.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 6.1 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 5 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.
Mandi price through the year (December 2025–May 2026, July–November 2026): about ₹5,000 a quintal across India's mandis.
This week: about ₹5,000 a quintal, the middle of 70 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹3,000 a year after typical costs.
- ₹2,850 2021
- ₹2,530 2022
- ₹2,430 2023
- ₹3,030 2024
- ₹6,010 2025
Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.
Prices are usually best in December.
Typical costs are about ₹27,000 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 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.