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 India.
₹65,000–₹98,000
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 5
After typical costs: ₹38,000–₹71,000 an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Needs care: Cool in November
- Not known: No soil data
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.
Needs about 1,330 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,340 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,020 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 28 °C / 21 °C
- Jul 28 °C / 21 °C
- Aug 28 °C / 21 °C
- Sep 28 °C / 21 °C
- Oct 27 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 25 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 22 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 24 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 28 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 29 °C / 17 °C
- May 28 °C / 19 °C
- Jun 28 °C / 21 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Likes pH 5.0–8.0. We have no pH figures for this place.
Money
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.
Mandi price through the year (December 2025–May 2026, July–November 2026): about ₹5,000 a quintal across India's mandis.
This week: about ₹5,000 a quintal, the middle of 64 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹55,000 a year after typical costs.
- ₹2,850 2021
- ₹2,530 2022
- ₹2,430 2023
- ₹3,030 2024
- ₹6,010 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.