Planting calendar

• West coast · Monsoon · May, Jun

  A guide: plant with the first monsoon or pre-monsoon rains (TNAU Agritech gives May for Kerala, May-June for Karnataka); in low-lying land, after the monsoon ends. Plant once the rains have wetted the soil in your district.

• South peninsula · Monsoon · Jun, Jul

  A guide: plant with the June-July rains (TNAU Agritech for Tamil Nadu), only where water is assured in the dry months. Plant once the rains have wetted the soil in your district.

• East India · Monsoon · Jun, Jul

  A guide: plant once the south-west monsoon has wetted the soil, on well-drained land.

• East coast · Post-monsoon · Oct, Nov

  A guide: October-November only where the main rains come with the north-east monsoon, as on the Tamil Nadu coast (ICAR-CPCRI). Plant once the rains have wetted the soil in your district.

Sources: Subramanian P. et al. (2018). Coconut. Technical Bulletin No. 133, ICAR-Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (CPCRI), Kasaragod; TNAU Agritech expert system: Coconut planting seasons and climate

This article was prepared with AI assistance and checked by the GreenEye team against the sources shown in each section.