Potato
Sow in November, harvest around March
Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.
Grown on 1,669 acres here. Sold at 8 mandis in your district.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Suits: Frost risk in January
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 290 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 0 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 0 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):
- Nov 29 °C / 12 °C
- Dec 23 °C / 7 °C
- Jan 19 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 23 °C / 9 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Nights in January can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.
Soil
Soil for Potato: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 5.0–6.2.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 89 quintals an acre here (district figures).
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 (March–April 2026): about ₹500 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹700 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your district (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹800 2021
- ₹1,200 2022
- ₹750 2023
- ₹1,600 2024
- ₹1,000 2025
Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.
Prices are usually best in July.
Typical costs are about ₹68,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.