₹34,000–₹51,000
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 5
After typical costs: ₹7,000–₹24,000 an acre a year
- Needs care: Risky: 16 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 16 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,480 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 680 mm it can use in a normal year, and 510 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 32 °C / 25 °C
- Jul 31 °C / 25 °C
- Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
- Sep 32 °C / 25 °C
- Oct 31 °C / 25 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 24 °C
- Dec 31 °C / 23 °C
- Jan 31 °C / 23 °C
- Feb 32 °C / 23 °C
- Mar 34 °C / 25 °C
- Apr 34 °C / 26 °C
- May 33 °C / 26 °C
- Jun 32 °C / 25 °C
Soil
Soil for Coconut: 8 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
- Many fields here are short of boron, 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 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.
On rain alone it gets about 46% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 46% of this yield.
Mandi price through the year (December 2025–May 2026, September–November 2026): about ₹5,900 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹5,400 a quintal, the middle of 9 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹12,000 a year after typical costs.
- ₹3,150 2024
- ₹6,780 2025
Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.
Prices are usually best in September.
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 27 quintals an acre. That's a realistic target.
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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 54% of local fields of this crop get it.
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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.
Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 54%
- Single Super Phosphate (SSP) 25%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 19%
- NPK Mixture 0%