Potato
Sow in October, harvest around February
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.
₹53,000–₹79,000
per acre a season, before costs
At typical costs, from a loss of ₹11,000 to a profit of ₹15,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 1 irrigation short
- Suits: Frost risk in January
- 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 280 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 50 mm it can use in a normal year (40 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 26 °C / 17 °C
- Nov 23 °C / 12 °C
- Dec 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
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).
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 5.0–6.2.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 42 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none 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 (February–March 2026): about ₹1,750 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹2,000 a quintal, the middle of 5 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹11,000 a season after typical costs.
Prices are usually best in August.
Typical costs are about ₹64,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.