Groundnut
Sow in June, harvest around October
This season's sowing time (June–July) is over.
Grown on 2.5 acres here. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹22,000–₹33,000
per acre a season, before costs
Likely a loss at typical costs: ₹7,000–₹18,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 2 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 2 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 470 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 410 mm it can use in a normal year, and 300 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 22–32 °C on average, and survives 10–45 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 38 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 34 °C / 26 °C
- Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 33 °C / 24 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Groundnut: 8 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Low nitrogen matters less: it makes its own.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
Likes pH 5.5–6.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 4.6 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).
On rain alone it gets about 88% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 88% of this yield.
Mandi price at this season's harvest so far (October–November 2026): about ₹6,817 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹6,781 a quintal, the middle of 16 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would lose about ₹13,000 a season at typical costs.
Minimum support price: ₹7,517 a quintal (2026-27), if you sell to government procurement.
- ₹5,560 2021
- ₹5,780 2022
- ₹6,410 2023
- ₹5,460 2024
- ₹5,500 2025
Prices are usually best in May.
Typical costs are about ₹40,000 an acre (seed, fertiliser, labour and hired machines, from the government's cost survey). They are spent whatever the harvest.
How to make it work
The better districts with similar soil, rain and warmth get 4.9 quintals an acre. That's a realistic target.
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Short of organic carbon Your soil is likely short of organic carbon.
Add 4 tonnes of compost or farmyard manure per acre before sowing, and plough crop leftovers back in instead of burning them.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.