Coriander

Water

Rain falls about 4 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 320 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 150 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 31 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 27 °C / 11 °C
• Jan 25 °C / 10 °C
• Feb 29 °C / 13 °C

Soil

Soil for Coriander: 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of sulphur, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 5.5–8.0.

Money

Yield: about 4.0 quintals an acre here (district figures).

On rain alone it gets about 48% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 48% of this yield.

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 ₹9,000 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.