Tapioca (Cassava)

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 660 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 3,950 mm it can use in a normal year, and 3,310 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

Grows best at 20–29 °C on average, and survives 10–35 °C.

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

• Jun 24 °C / 18 °C
• Jul 24 °C / 18 °C
• Aug 24 °C / 18 °C
• Sep 24 °C / 17 °C
• Oct 23 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 20 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 17 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 16 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 18 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 22 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 23 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• May 24 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 24 °C / 18 °C

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 Tapioca (Cassava): 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
• Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 5.5–8.0.

Money

Yield: about 149 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (your district's own figure looked wrong).

Mandi price through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹3,000 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹3,500 a quintal, the middle of 71 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹2.8 lakh a year after typical costs.

Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in September.

Typical costs are about ₹2.4 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.