Coriander

Water

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

Needs about 600 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 180 mm it can use in a normal year (110 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 20 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 11 °C / 1 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 6 °C / -4 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 3 °C / -6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 5 °C / -4 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 9 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 16 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• May 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 23 °C / 12 °C
• Jul 22 °C / 13 °C

Soil

Soil for Coriander: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: sulphur and boron.

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

Likes pH 5.5–8.0.

Money

Yield: about 2.8 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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 (July–August 2026): about ₹13,675 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹14,525 a quintal, the middle of 22 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in November.

Typical costs are about ₹17,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.