Skip to content
Compare

Coffee vs Tobacco

Both are Plantation. Each axis is a percentile across all 538 crops — 80 means higher than four-fifths of the table. Where an axis is missing, the crop genuinely is not measured that way.

Coffee Tobacco

Measure Coffee Tobacco
Season Perennial Rabi
Sowing window Jun–Jul (planting) Sep–Oct
Days to harvest 3–4 yr to bear 110–130
Spacing 2.5 × 2.5 m 90 × 60 cm
Soil pH 6.0–6.5 5.5–6.5
Water 1500–2000 400–600
Temperature °C 15–28 20–30
Seed rate 1,600 plants 250–300 g
Yield 1–1.5 t clean 1.5–2.5 t cured
Watch for White stem borer, leaf rust Aphid, budworm, black shank

Other plantation comparisons

Crop intelligence

Other plantation, side by side

Everything in the same group, on the figures that decide what to plant.

Crop Sow Days pH Temp °C Yield
Pyrethrum Sep–Oct 2–3 yr 5.5–7.0 10–22 0.8–1.5 t
Tea Jun–Aug (planting) 3–4 yr to pluck 4.5–5.5 18–30 2–3 t made tea
Coffee Jun–Jul (planting) 3–4 yr to bear 6.0–6.5 15–28 1–1.5 t clean
Cashew Jun–Jul (planting) 3–4 yr to bear 5.5–7.0 20–35 1–1.5 t nuts
Cocoa Jun–Jul (planting) 3–4 yr to bear 5.5–7.0 20–30 1–1.5 t dry bean
Oil Palm Jun–Sep (planting) 3–4 yr to bear 5.0–7.0 24–32 20–25 t FFB
Bamboo Jun–Jul 4–6 yr 5.0–7.0 18–35 8–15 t
Coconut Jun–Jul (planting) 5–6 yr to bear 5.5–7.5 20–32 80–120 nuts/palm
Arecanut Jun–Jul (planting) 5–7 yr to bear 5.5–7.0 20–32 2–3 t dry kernel
Palmarosa Jun–Jul 5–6 mo 6.0–8.0 20–35 15–25 t
Rubber Jun–Jul (planting) 6–7 yr to tap 4.5–6.0 25–34 1.5–2 t dry rubber
Citronella Jun–Jul 6–8 mo 5.5–7.5 20–32 20–30 t
Betel Vine Jun–Jul 6–8 mo 6.5–7.5 20–32 50–60 lakh leaves
Rattan Jun–Jul 7–10 yr 4.5–6.5 22–32 2–4 t

5 more in this list. All 538 crops, with every column → The sowing year →