Sweet Potato

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 430 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 670 mm it can use in a normal year, and 530 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 18–28 °C on average, and survives 10–38 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jul 31 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 31 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 17 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Sweet Potato: 7 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: pH and sulphur.

• Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.

Likes pH 5.0–7.0. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 37 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025): about ₹1,900 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹3,350 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your state (latest 12 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹70,000 a season after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in September.

Typical costs are about ₹55,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.