Groundnut
Sow in November, harvest around March
Sowing time is now.
No recent figures for your district. Priced from mandis across India.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Needs care: Risky: 3 irrigations short
- Doesn't suit: Too cold here in this season
- Not known: No soil data
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Water
Rain falls about 3 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 300 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 20 mm it can use in a normal year (10 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 140 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 25 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 22 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 25 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
Soil
Likes pH 5.5–6.5. We have no pH figures for this place.
Money
Yield: about 3.6 quintals an acre here (older figures, 2018-19).
Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.
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).
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.