Potato
Sow in October, harvest around February
Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.
Grown on 4,613 acres here. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹55,000–₹82,000
per acre a season, before costs
At typical costs, from a loss of ₹10,000 to a profit of ₹18,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 2 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Not known: No soil data
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 270 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 50 mm it can use in a normal year (20 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 130 mm from the monsoon at sowing.
Temperature
Grows best at 15–25 °C on average, and survives 7–30 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Oct 25 °C / 17 °C
- Nov 23 °C / 13 °C
- Dec 20 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Likes pH 5.0–6.2. We have no pH figures for this place.
Money
Yield: about 34 quintals an acre here (district figures).
Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–March 2026): about ₹2,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹2,500 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹21,000 a season after typical costs.
- ₹3,750 2024
- ₹2,750 2025
Prices are usually best in August.
Typical costs are about ₹64,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.