Potato

A winter crop. Sow in Oct–Nov, harvest in Jan–Feb.

Check it on your land
Season
Rabi
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Sowing Growing Harvest

96% of its area.
Ready in
105 days
about 3½ months
Water
300–330 mm
of water over its season (rain plus irrigation)
Grows best at
15–25 °C
0 °C survives 7–30 °C 40 °C

When to sow and harvest

Rabi 96% of its area
Today: rabi sowing time
J J A S O N D J F M A M
Sow Growing Harvest
The year starts in June, with the monsoon. Your district can shift a few weeks.

Sowing Growing Harvest

Will it grow on your land?

Pherzawl Manipur
Water
Season

Good fit in Pherzawl

Potato

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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.

₹60,000–₹91,000

per acre a season, before costs

After typical costs: ₹5,000–₹35,000 an acre a season

  • Suits: Rain is enough
  • Suits: Ideal temperatures
  • Not known: No soil data
Why, and how to make it work

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 260 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 190 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 27 °C / 19 °C
  • Nov 25 °C / 15 °C
  • Dec 22 °C / 11 °C
  • Jan 21 °C / 10 °C

Soil

Likes pH 5.0–6.2. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 34 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹2,250 a quintal across mandis in your state.

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 ₹28,000 a season after typical costs.

Average mandi price each year (₹ a quintal):
  1. ₹3,750 2024
  2. ₹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.

Fertiliser for one acre here

Urea
131 kg
DAP
70 kg
MOP
67 kg

Draft: check with your Krishi Vigyan Kendra.

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What it needs

Temperature

15–25 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 7–30 °C. Frost hurts it.

Water

300–330 mm over its season

Rain and irrigation together, worked out where most of it grows:

Hooghly Paschim Medinipur Purba Bardhaman Agra Kannauj

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes slightly acidic soil. Grows from pH 4.2 to 8.5.

Soil

  • No salty soil
  • Ordinary farm soil is fine
  • N Needs plenty of nitrogen and potassium
How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°); TerraClimate 1991–2020 temperature normals (about 4 km), where each district's villages are.

Fertiliser for one acre

Draft: check with your Krishi Vigyan Kendra

For most fields

Urea nitrogen
131 kg about 3 bags of 45 kg
DAP phosphate
70 kg about 1½ bags of 50 kg
MOP potash
67 kg about 1¼ bags of 50 kg

Give the DAP and MOP at sowing, and the urea in two or three doses. If your soil card says a nutrient is low, add about a quarter more of it.

Watch out for

Draft: check with your Krishi Vigyan Kendra
  • Late blight
    Disease

    Look for

    Dark water-soaked patches on leaves with white mould underneath in cool, cloudy weather; a field can collapse within days.

    What to do first

    Plant healthy seed. When the weather turns cool and cloudy, spray mancozeb before it shows; once it appears, switch to metalaxyl with mancozeb or cymoxanil. Follow the label or your KVK for the dose.

  • Early blight
    Disease

    Look for

    Brown spots with rings on the older leaves.

    What to do first

    Feed the crop well; spray mancozeb when spots appear. Follow the label or your KVK for the dose.

  • Black scurf
    Disease

    Look for

    Black crusts on tubers that don't wash off; weak sprouts.

    What to do first

    Plant clean, treated seed tubers and rotate crops.

  • Cutworm
    Pest

    Look for

    Young plants cut off at the base at night; grey caterpillars curled in the soil.

    What to do first

    Plough well and keep the field free of weeds; treat the soil as your KVK advises.

What an acre earns

At India's average yield and a recent price, named below. Your land, water and mandi will differ.

Left an acre, a season

₹41,800

Yield India's average
100.9 quintals an acre
× Price harvest price last season (Jan–Feb 2026)
₹950 a quintal
= Income
₹95,900
− Costs about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys
−₹54,100
= Left
₹41,800

This week potato sells at about ₹1,000 a quintal: India's middle price at 649 mandis, latest 13 Nov. At that price an acre would leave about ₹46,800 a season.

A good year or field earns about a fifth more, a poor one a fifth less: ₹76,700 to ₹1,15,000 income an acre. Costs stay the same either way.

Work it out for your land

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
December, ₹1,200 a quintal
Lowest
March, ₹843 a quintal
₹843
₹1,200
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Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis: each month's latest price (Dec 2025–Nov 2026).

Latest prices near Pherzawl Today's price across India

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India
59.4 lakh acres
2025-26
Average yield
100.9 quintals an acre (24.9 tonnes a hectare)
2025-26
Most area
Uttar Pradesh
29% of India's
Best yield
Aligarh
144 quintals an acre

States that grow it

Each state's share of India's production, in its latest year with figures (2025-26). Tap a state to open it.

Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).

Where it grows most

The districts with the most area in recent years. The map colours every district growing it on at least 100 ha by yield; the numbers mark these districts.

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2018-19 to 2022-23.

Where yields are highest

Districts growing it on at least 100 ha, against the average across India. The line runs from India's average to each district.

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2018-19 to 2022-23.

Soil and yield

How district soil tests line up with this crop's yields across India.

Potato yields tend to be higher in districts with

  • More soil that is neutral moderate 380 districts

Potato yields tend to be lower in districts with

  • More soil that is acidic strong 380 districts

A pattern is not proof that soil causes the difference.

Source: Soil Health Card – soil nutrient analysis (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).