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 your state.
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 8/10
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 410 mm it can use in a normal year, and 340 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 / 23 °C
- Jul 29 °C / 22 °C
- Aug 29 °C / 21 °C
- Sep 29 °C / 21 °C
- Oct 31 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 15 °C
- Dec 29 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 29 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 32 °C / 14 °C
- Mar 36 °C / 19 °C
- Apr 39 °C / 23 °C
- May 40 °C / 25 °C
- Jun 34 °C / 23 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Coconut: 8 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 nitrogen.
- Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
Likes pH 5.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 10.0 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.
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, August–September 2026): about ₹5,225 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹5,000 a quintal, the middle of 64 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹1,890 2021
- ₹1,510 2022
- ₹1,410 2023
- ₹1,910 2024
- ₹3,260 2025
Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.
Prices are usually best in January.
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.
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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.
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Short of iron Your soil is likely short of iron.
Spray ferrous sulphate, 5 g per litre of water, when young leaves turn yellow.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.