Sweet Potato
Sow in June, harvest around October
This season's sowing time (June–July) is over.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹69,000–₹1.0 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹10,000–₹45,000 an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough, even in a dry year.
Needs about 410 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 690 mm it can use in a normal year, and 510 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):
- Jun 29 °C / 19 °C
- Jul 26 °C / 19 °C
- Aug 25 °C / 19 °C
- Sep 25 °C / 17 °C
- Oct 23 °C / 13 °C
Soil
Soil for Sweet Potato: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 5.0–7.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 38 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).
Mandi price at this season's harvest so far (November 2026): about ₹2,250 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹3,200 a quintal, the middle of 73 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹64,000 a season after typical costs.
Prices are usually best in November.
Typical costs are about ₹59,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.