Groundnut
Sow in November, harvest around March
Sowing time is now.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across India.
₹19,000–₹29,000
per acre a season, before costs
Likely a loss at typical costs: ₹12,000–₹21,000 an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Doesn't suit: Too cold in january
- Suits: Soil 10/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough, even in a dry year.
Needs about 200 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 60 mm it can use in a normal year (20 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 180 mm from the monsoon at sowing.
Temperature
Grows best at 22–32 °C on average, and survives 10–45 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Nov 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 17 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 15 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 18 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
Nights in December can bring frost while the plants are young. Sow a little later, or cover the seedlings on cold nights.
Soil
Soil for Groundnut: 10 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: organic carbon, sulphur, manganese and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
- Low nitrogen matters less: it makes its own.
Likes pH 5.5–6.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 3.7 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).
Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹6,482 a quintal across India's mandis.
This week: about ₹7,170 a quintal, the middle of 137 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would lose about ₹14,000 a season at typical costs.
Minimum support price: ₹7,517 a quintal (2026-27), if you sell to government procurement.
- ₹5,150 2021
- ₹5,500 2022
- ₹6,270 2023
- ₹5,680 2024
- ₹5,000 2025
Prices are usually best in November.
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.