Coriander

Water

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

Needs about 260 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 0 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 100 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 15–25 °C on average, and survives 4–32 °C.

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

• Nov 29 °C / 13 °C
• Dec 23 °C / 8 °C
• Jan 21 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 25 °C / 10 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Coriander: 6 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: potassium, sulphur and manganese.

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 5.5–8.0.

Money

Yield: about 3.1 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).

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 (February–March 2026): about ₹8,875 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹14,300 a quintal, the middle of 21 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in November.

Typical costs are about ₹18,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.