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.
₹48,000–₹72,000
per acre a season, before costs
At typical costs, from a loss of ₹8,000 to a profit of ₹16,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 2 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Not known: No soil data
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 270 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 40 mm it can use in a normal year (30 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 170 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 / 18 °C
- Nov 24 °C / 13 °C
- Dec 21 °C / 9 °C
- Jan 21 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
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).
On rain alone it gets about 79% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 79% of this yield.
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 ₹11,000 a season after typical costs.
- ₹3,750 2024
- ₹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.