Tapioca (Cassava)

Water

Rain falls about 8 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,050 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 690 mm it can use in a normal year, and 450 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 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 35 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 34 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 34 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 32 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 22 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 21 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 20 °C
• Feb 32 °C / 21 °C
• Mar 35 °C / 23 °C
• Apr 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• May 38 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Tapioca (Cassava): 7 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: manganese.

• 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 zinc.

Likes pH 5.5–8.0.

Money

Yield: about 178 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 ₹3,125 a quintal across mandis in your state.

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.