Tapioca (Cassava)
Holds the land all year
Grown on 3,034 acres here. Sold at 1 mandi in your district.
₹4.0 lakh–₹6.0 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
After typical costs: ₹1.5 lakh–₹3.5 lakh an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.
Needs about 880 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 970 mm it can use in a normal year, and 690 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 20–29 °C on average, and survives 10–35 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 26 °C / 20 °C
- Jul 24 °C / 19 °C
- Aug 25 °C / 19 °C
- Sep 26 °C / 19 °C
- Oct 27 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 27 °C / 19 °C
- Dec 27 °C / 17 °C
- Jan 27 °C / 17 °C
- Feb 29 °C / 18 °C
- Mar 30 °C / 20 °C
- Apr 30 °C / 21 °C
- May 29 °C / 21 °C
- Jun 26 °C / 20 °C
Soil
Soil for Tapioca (Cassava): 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen and sulphur.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 5.5–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 172 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).
Mandi price through the year (April–November 2026): about ₹2,900 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹3,500 a quintal, the middle of 62 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹3.6 lakh a year after typical costs.
Prices are usually best in November.
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.
How to make it work
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 5%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 5%
- NPK Mixture 2%