Potato
Sow in October, harvest around January
Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.
Grown on 3,262 acres here. Sold at 2 mandis in your district.
₹55,000–₹83,000
per acre a season, before costs
At typical costs, from a loss of ₹198 to a profit of ₹27,000 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 280 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 60 mm it can use in a normal year (30 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 160 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 28 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 25 °C / 14 °C
- Dec 22 °C / 9 °C
- Jan 22 °C / 8 °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 35 quintals an acre here (district figures).
Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹2,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.
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 ₹31,000 a season after typical costs.
- ₹2,250 2023
- ₹3,700 2024
- ₹2,750 2025
Prices are usually best in August.
Typical costs are about ₹56,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.
How to make it work
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 98%
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 90%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 90%
- Single Super Phosphate (SSP) 83%