Potato
Sow in March, harvest around July
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across your state.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Needs care: Risky: 6 irrigations short
- Suits: Frost risk in March
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 6 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 500 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 230 mm it can use in a normal year, and 170 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 15–25 °C on average, and survives 7–30 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Mar 16 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 21 °C / 9 °C
- May 25 °C / 13 °C
- Jun 29 °C / 17 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Nights in March can bring frost while the plants are young. Sow a little later, or cover the seedlings on cold nights.
Soil
Soil for Potato: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of boron.
Likes pH 5.0–6.2.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 50 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).
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 (July–August 2026): about ₹1,150 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹950 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹1,300 2021
- ₹1,580 2022
- ₹1,350 2023
- ₹2,130 2024
- ₹1,390 2025
Prices are usually best in August.
Typical costs are about ₹73,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.
How to make it work
The better districts with similar soil, rain and warmth get 54 quintals an acre. That's a realistic target.
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Short of boron Your soil is likely short of boron.
Mix 4 kg of borax per acre into the soil before sowing.
Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 5%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 4%
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 2%