Sweet Potato

Water

Rain falls about 2 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 430 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 330 mm it can use in a normal year (190 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 10 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

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

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

• Oct 34 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 31 °C / 24 °C
• Dec 31 °C / 23 °C
• Jan 31 °C / 23 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 23 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of sulphur.

Likes pH 5.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 87 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).

On rain alone it gets about 78% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 78% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–March 2026): about ₹3,875 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in October.

Typical costs are about ₹55,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.