Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Needs care: Risky: 17 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 17 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,560 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 750 mm it can use in a normal year, and 510 mm in a dry year.
About 98% of Coconut in Visakhapatnam, the nearest district with figures, is grown on rain alone. Your district has no figure of its own.
Temperature
Grows best at 22–34 °C on average, and survives 14–38 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 35 °C / 27 °C
- Jul 32 °C / 26 °C
- Aug 32 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 32 °C / 25 °C
- Oct 31 °C / 24 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 21 °C
- Dec 29 °C / 18 °C
- Jan 29 °C / 18 °C
- Feb 31 °C / 20 °C
- Mar 34 °C / 23 °C
- Apr 35 °C / 26 °C
- May 37 °C / 27 °C
- Jun 35 °C / 27 °C
Soil
Soil for Coconut: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
- Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
Likes pH 5.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 22 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).
A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 5 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.
Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.
Mandi price through the year (December 2025–May 2026, July–November 2026): about ₹5,000 a quintal across India's mandis.
This week: about ₹3,300 a quintal, the middle of 3 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹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.
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.
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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.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.