Coriander

Water

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

Needs about 250 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 70 mm it can use in a normal year (30 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 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):

• Oct 25 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 23 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 20 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: boron.

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

Likes pH 5.5–8.0.

Money

Yield: about 5.2 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (your district's own figure looked wrong).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–March 2026): about ₹8,875 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 ₹55,000 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.