Potato
Sow in October, harvest around January
Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.
Grown on 22 acres here. Priced from mandis across your state.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Needs care: Risky: 5 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 10/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 5 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 360 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 150 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 35 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 32 °C / 16 °C
- Dec 29 °C / 13 °C
- Jan 27 °C / 11 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Potato: 10 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 5.0–6.2.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 82 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).
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 (January–February 2026): about ₹825 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹850 a quintal, the middle of 26 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹930 2021
- ₹1,300 2022
- ₹1,000 2023
- ₹1,880 2024
- ₹1,190 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.
How to make it work
The better districts with similar soil, rain and warmth get 68 quintals an acre. That's a realistic target.