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.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,800 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 610 mm it can use in a normal year, and 540 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 39 °C / 27 °C
- Jul 32 °C / 24 °C
- Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 32 °C / 23 °C
- Oct 34 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 31 °C / 14 °C
- Dec 27 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 25 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 30 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 35 °C / 18 °C
- Apr 40 °C / 23 °C
- May 43 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 39 °C / 27 °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 potassium, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
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.
Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.
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).
- ₹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.
About 68% of local fields of this crop get it.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 68%
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 47%
- Single Super Phosphate (SSP) 41%