Rubber

Planted once, harvested year after year.

Check it on your land
Season
Whole year
100% of its area.
Grows best at
24–33 °C
0 °C survives 10–45 °C 40 °C

When to sow and harvest

Planted once, usually at the start of the rains. It stays for years: the first real harvest comes after about 7 years, then one every year.

Will it grow on your land?

Thrissur Kerala
Water
Season

Possible in Thrissur, with effort

Rubber

Holds the land all year

No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across your state.

No yield figures yet to estimate income

  • Suits: Rain is enough
  • Suits: Ideal temperatures
  • Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 1,480 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,990 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,620 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 24–33 °C on average, and survives 10–45 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

  • Jun 30 °C / 24 °C
  • Jul 29 °C / 23 °C
  • Aug 29 °C / 24 °C
  • Sep 30 °C / 24 °C
  • Oct 31 °C / 24 °C
  • Nov 31 °C / 24 °C
  • Dec 32 °C / 23 °C
  • Jan 32 °C / 23 °C
  • Feb 33 °C / 24 °C
  • Mar 34 °C / 26 °C
  • Apr 34 °C / 26 °C
  • May 33 °C / 26 °C
  • Jun 30 °C / 24 °C

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen.

  • Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
  • Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
  • Most fields here are short of sulphur.

Likes pH 4.5–6.0.

How the soil score works

Money

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 7 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

No yield records for this crop yet.

Mandi price through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹22,663 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹28,300 a quintal, the middle of 5 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Average mandi price each year (₹ a quintal):
  1. ₹15,970 2021
  2. ₹16,150 2022
  3. ₹14,250 2023
  4. ₹17,730 2024
  5. ₹18,000 2025

Prices are usually best in November.

How to make it work

  • Short of sulphur Your soil is likely short of sulphur.

    Use single super phosphate instead of DAP, or add about 100 kg of gypsum per acre before sowing.

    About 25% of local fields of this crop get it.

What local farmers put on it (share of fields):

  • Ammonium Phosphate Sulphate / Nitrogen Phosphate 25%
  • Muriate of Potash (MOP) 12%
  • Urea Ammonium Phosphate 11%
  • Urea 10%
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What it needs

Temperature

24–33 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 10–45 °C. Frost hurts it.

Water

The check above works out its water need on your land.

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes slightly acidic soil. Grows from pH 3.5 to 8.

Soil

  • No salty soil
  • Ordinary farm soil is fine
  • K Needs plenty of potassium
How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°); TerraClimate 1991–2020 temperature normals (about 4 km), where each district's villages are.

Fertiliser for one acre

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra for the dose.

Watch out for

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to watch for.

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
November, ₹27,900 a quintal
Lowest
December, ₹17,400 a quintal
₹27,900
₹17,400
J F M A M J J A S O N D

Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis: each month's latest price (Dec 2025–Nov 2026).

Latest prices near Thrissur Today's price across India

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Where it grows most

The districts with the most area in recent years. The map colours every district growing it on at least 100 ha by yield; the numbers mark these districts.

No recent district figures for this crop.