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.
₹65,000–₹98,000
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 5
After typical costs: ₹38,000–₹71,000 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, even in a dry year.
Needs about 1,400 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 5,670 mm it can use in a normal year, and 4,370 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 22–34 °C on average, and survives 14–38 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 31 °C / 25 °C
- Jul 31 °C / 25 °C
- Aug 31 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 31 °C / 25 °C
- Oct 31 °C / 23 °C
- Nov 28 °C / 18 °C
- Dec 25 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 24 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 27 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 31 °C / 18 °C
- Apr 32 °C / 22 °C
- May 32 °C / 23 °C
- Jun 31 °C / 25 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Coconut: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: sulphur.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of zinc.
Likes pH 5.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 16 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).
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 64 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹55,000 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 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.