Coffee

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 1,350 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 680 mm it can use in a normal year, and 580 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 14–28 °C on average, and survives 10–34 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 37 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 31 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 29 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 24 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 17 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 21 °C / 10 °C
• Mar 26 °C / 14 °C
• Apr 32 °C / 19 °C
• May 36 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 37 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in January can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Soil for Coffee: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: sulphur, zinc, iron and 3 more.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 3 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

No yield records for this crop yet.

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 at last season's harvest (December 2025–February 2026): about ₹21,150 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹21,400 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in December.