₹40,000–₹60,000
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 5
After typical costs: ₹13,000–₹33,000 an acre a year
- Needs care: Risky: 8 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 10/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 8 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,410 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,020 mm it can use in a normal year, and 860 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 26 °C / 19 °C
- Jul 24 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 24 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 25 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 26 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 26 °C / 18 °C
- Dec 26 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 27 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 29 °C / 17 °C
- Mar 31 °C / 19 °C
- Apr 30 °C / 20 °C
- May 30 °C / 20 °C
- Jun 26 °C / 19 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Coconut: 10 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 5.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 11 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.
Mandi price through the year (December 2025–May 2026, July–November 2026): about ₹4,600 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹4,700 a quintal, the middle of 40 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹24,000 a year after typical costs.
- ₹2,650 2021
- ₹2,650 2022
- ₹2,450 2023
- ₹2,960 2024
- ₹4,980 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
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 26%
- Single Super Phosphate (SSP) 5%