₹1.0 lakh–₹1.5 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 5
After typical costs: ₹75,000–₹1.3 lakh an acre a year
- Needs care: Risky: 10 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 10 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,530 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,040 mm it can use in a normal year, and 830 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 34 °C / 26 °C
- Jul 33 °C / 26 °C
- Aug 32 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 33 °C / 26 °C
- Oct 32 °C / 24 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 19 °C
- Dec 27 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 25 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 29 °C / 16 °C
- Mar 33 °C / 21 °C
- Apr 35 °C / 24 °C
- May 36 °C / 26 °C
- Jun 34 °C / 26 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Coconut: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of sulphur.
Likes pH 5.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 25 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).
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 ₹1.0 lakh 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
The better districts with similar soil, rain and warmth get 24 quintals an acre. That's a realistic target.
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Short of sulphur Your soil is likely short of sulphur.
Use single super phosphate instead of DAP, or add about 100 kg of gypsum per acre before sowing.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.