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 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):

• Oct 35 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 31 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 27 °C / 11 °C
• Jan 25 °C / 10 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen, sulphur and boron.

• The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 5.5–8.0.

Money

Yield: about 6.7 quintals an acre here (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 ₹9,133 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹14,880 a quintal, the middle of 3 mandis in your district (latest 12 Nov).

Prices are usually best in August.

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.