Tapioca (Cassava)

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 1,120 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 420 mm it can use in a normal year, and 240 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 35 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 34 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 22 °C
• Dec 31 °C / 21 °C
• Jan 32 °C / 21 °C
• Feb 35 °C / 22 °C
• Mar 37 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 37 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• May 37 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 35 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Tapioca (Cassava): 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 iron.

Likes pH 5.5–8.0.

Money

Yield: about 144 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

Mandi price through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹2,775 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹3,750 a quintal, the middle of 7 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

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.