Coriander

Water

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

Needs about 360 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 20 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 140 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 31 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 30 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 15 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 15 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

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

Likes pH 5.5–8.0.

Money

Yield: about 2.3 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).

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 (January–February 2026): about ₹7,577 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹14,078 a quintal, the middle of 24 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in June.

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.