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.
₹35,000–₹52,000
per acre a season, before costs
At typical costs, from a loss of ₹6,000 to a profit of ₹12,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 1 irrigation short
- Doesn't suit: Too cold here in this season
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 1 irrigation (5 cm) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 250 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 10 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 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 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 20 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 18 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
Soil
Soil for Groundnut: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: boron.
- The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
- Low nitrogen matters less: it makes its own.
- Many fields here are short of sulphur, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 5.5–6.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 8.0 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).
On rain alone it gets about 83% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 83% of this yield.
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 leave about ₹7,000 a season after 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.