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.
₹30,000–₹45,000
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 5
After typical costs: ₹3,000–₹18,000 an acre a year
- Needs care: Risky: 4 irrigations short
- Doesn't suit: Too cold in january
- 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 1,190 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,000 mm it can use in a normal year, and 760 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 27 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 24 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 24 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 24 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 17 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 14 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 12 °C / 2 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 15 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- May 27 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 27 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
Nights in November can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.
Soil
Soil for Coconut: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- 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.
On rain alone it gets about 84% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 84% of this yield.
Mandi price through the year (November–December 2024, August–October 2025): about ₹2,750 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹5,000 a quintal, the middle of 70 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹41,000 a year after typical costs.
Prices are usually best in October.
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.