₹67,000–₹1.0 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 5
After typical costs: ₹40,000–₹74,000 an acre a year
- Needs care: Risky: 5 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 5 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,490 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,250 mm it can use in a normal year, and 950 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 31 °C / 25 °C
- Jul 30 °C / 24 °C
- Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 31 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 31 °C / 24 °C
- Nov 31 °C / 24 °C
- Dec 31 °C / 23 °C
- Jan 32 °C / 23 °C
- Feb 33 °C / 24 °C
- Mar 33 °C / 25 °C
- Apr 33 °C / 26 °C
- May 33 °C / 26 °C
- Jun 31 °C / 25 °C
Soil
Soil for Coconut: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
- 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 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 (May–November 2025, April 2026): about ₹8,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹5,500 a quintal, the middle of 15 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹31,000 a year after typical costs.
- ₹2,800 2021
- ₹3,730 2022
- ₹3,800 2023
- ₹4,500 2024
- ₹8,000 2025
Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.
Prices are usually best in July.
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 23 quintals an acre. That's a realistic target.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Nitro Phosphate Potash 1%
- NPK Mixture 0%
- Ammonium Phosphate Sulphate 0%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 0%