Coconut

Planted once, harvested year after year.

Check it on your land

Season

Whole year

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100% of its area.

Water

1,540–1,680 mm

over its season

Temperature

22–34 °C

0° survives 14–38 °C 40°

When to sow and harvest

Planted once at the start of the monsoon. It stays for years and gives a harvest every year.

Will it grow on your land?

Pick your place and water to see:

Whether Coconut suits your land Good fit, possible or won't work, with the reasons.
What it could earn an acre From yields near you and mandi prices.
Water and fertiliser it needs Irrigations for your water, and bags for one acre.

What it needs

Temperature

22–34 °C

best 22–34° 14° 38°

0 °C40 °C

Survives 14–38 °C. Frost hurts it.

Water

1,540–1,680 mm over its season

Rain and irrigation together, worked out where most of it grows:

Tumakuru Kozhikode Hassan Malappuram Coimbatore

Soil pH

best 5–8

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 4.3 to 8.7.

Soil

Takes a little salt
Ordinary farm soil is fine
K Needs plenty of potassium and boron

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°).

Fertiliser for one acre

Draft: check with your KVK

Nitrogen

500 g

per tree, each year

Phosphate

320 g

per tree, each year

Potash

1,200 g

per tree, each year

For each palm a year, in two splits, with 50 kg farmyard manure

Give the DAP and MOP at sowing, and the urea in two or three doses. If your soil card says a nutrient is low, add about a quarter more of it.

Watch out for

Draft: check with your KVK

Rhinoceros beetle

Pest

Look for

V-shaped cuts in opened fronds; holes in the crown.

What to do first

Hook out the beetles and keep manure pits clean; put neem cake in the leaf axils.
Red palm weevil

Pest

Look for

Holes in the trunk oozing brown liquid; the crown wilts.

What to do first

Avoid wounding the trunk and use pheromone traps; call your KVK early.
Bud rot

Disease

Look for

The youngest leaf turns yellow and wilts; the bud rots with a foul smell.

What to do first

Cut away the rotten part and apply Bordeaux paste; spray Bordeaux mixture before the monsoon.
Eriophyid mite

Pest

Look for

Triangular brown patches on young nuts; nuts small and cracked.

What to do first

Feed the palm well; spray neem on the bunches.

Mandi price, month by month

No mandi prices for this crop yet.

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India: 20,91,602 ha; 2022-23
Most area: Tumakuru; Karnataka

States that grow it

Each state's share of India's area, in its latest year with figures (2025-26). Tap a state to open it.

19 other states 94%

Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).

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.

Coconut yield

No data

1 Numbers match the list: the districts with the most area.

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2002-03 to 2022-23.

Across India over the years

Yield (t/ha)

Area (ha)

1.8M 1.9M 2.1M

2002-03 2022-23

Latest 20,91,602 ha in 2022-23

Only years in which most of the usual districts reported are shown.