₹80,000–₹1.2 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 5
After typical costs: ₹53,000–₹92,000 an acre a year
- Needs care: Risky: 4 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 4 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,480 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,320 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,130 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 33 °C / 26 °C
- Jul 33 °C / 27 °C
- Aug 33 °C / 27 °C
- Sep 32 °C / 26 °C
- Oct 32 °C / 23 °C
- Nov 29 °C / 17 °C
- Dec 26 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 27 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 32 °C / 17 °C
- Apr 34 °C / 22 °C
- May 34 °C / 25 °C
- Jun 33 °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, though not most crops.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 5.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 22 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).
A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 5 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.
On rain alone it gets about 89% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 89% of this yield.
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 ₹72,000 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
The better districts with similar soil, rain and warmth get 21 quintals an acre. That's a realistic target.
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Short of boron Your soil is likely short of boron.
Mix 4 kg of borax per acre into the soil before sowing.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.