Coffee

Water

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

Needs about 1,670 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 330 mm it can use in a normal year, and 270 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 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 36 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 35 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 34 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 24 °C / 8 °C
• Jan 21 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 25 °C / 10 °C
• Mar 32 °C / 16 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
• May 42 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 40 °C / 28 °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.

Days in June get hotter than it likes. Young plants need shade and water then.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.

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.