Coffee

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 1,290 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,660 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,200 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 28 °C / 21 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 22 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 22 °C
• Sep 28 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 28 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 25 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 23 °C / 12 °C
• Jan 23 °C / 11 °C
• Feb 25 °C / 12 °C
• Mar 29 °C / 16 °C
• Apr 30 °C / 19 °C
• May 29 °C / 20 °C
• Jun 28 °C / 21 °C

Soil

Soil for Coffee: 7 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: salt, sulphur, zinc and 4 more.

• The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

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.

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.