Potato
Sow in October, harvest around January
Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹1.0 lakh–₹1.5 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹45,000–₹96,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 2 irrigations short
- Needs care: Warm in October
- Needs care: Soil 7/10
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 330 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 130 mm it can use in a normal year (60 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 140 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 32 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 30 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 29 °C / 20 °C
- Jan 29 °C / 20 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Potato: 7 out of 10 (okay).
- The pH here suits it.
- Salt in the soil here can harm it.
- Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 5.0–6.2.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 83 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
On rain alone it gets about 84% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 84% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹1,800 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹1,000 a quintal, the middle of 649 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹14,000 a season after typical costs.
- ₹2,500 2024
- ₹1,600 2025
Prices are usually best in November.
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
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Short of nitrogen Your soil is likely short of nitrogen.
Add about a quarter more urea than the usual dose, in two or three splits. A pulse crop in rotation also adds nitrogen.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.