Coriander

Water

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

Needs about 280 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 120 mm it can use in a normal year (60 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 160 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 20 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 16 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 13 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 16 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 21 °C / 10 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Coriander: 8 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 (your district's own figure looked wrong).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (April–May 2026): about ₹11,084 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹14,078 a quintal, the middle of 24 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹21,000 a season after typical costs.

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.