Groundnut
Sow in June, harvest around October
This season's sowing time (June–July) is over.
Grown on 40 acres here. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹37,000–₹55,000
per acre a season, before costs
At typical costs, from a loss of ₹3,000 to a profit of ₹15,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 3 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 3 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 490 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 370 mm it can use in a normal year, and 210 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 41 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 36 °C / 27 °C
- Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Groundnut: 8 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: boron.
- The pH here suits it.
- Low nitrogen matters less: it makes its own.
- Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
Likes pH 5.5–6.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 8.7 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).
On rain alone it gets about 76% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 76% of this yield.
Mandi price at this season's harvest so far (October–November 2026): about ₹6,992 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹7,192 a quintal, the middle of 16 mandis in your state (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.
- ₹5,170 2021
- ₹5,330 2022
- ₹6,220 2023
- ₹5,020 2024
- ₹4,600 2025
Prices are usually best in September.
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 7.5 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.