Potato
Sow in October, harvest around January
Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.
Grown on 54 acres here. Last recorded in 2011-12. Sold at 13 mandis in your district.
₹94,000–₹1.4 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹38,000–₹85,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 1 irrigation short
- Needs care: Warm in October
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 1 irrigation (5 cm) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 380 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 140 mm it can use in a normal year (110 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 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 31 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 31 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 32 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 32 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Potato: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 5.0–6.2.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 55 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (no recent yield figures for your district).
On rain alone it gets about 89% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 89% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (January 2026): about ₹2,400 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹2,500 a quintal, the middle of 5 mandis in your district (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹66,000 a season after typical costs.
- ₹2,050 2021
- ₹2,930 2022
- ₹2,350 2023
- ₹3,700 2024
- ₹2,700 2025
Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.
Prices are usually best in December.
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.