Tapioca (Cassava)

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 1,040 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,090 mm it can use in a normal year, and 810 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 / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 30 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 28 °C / 14 °C
• Jan 29 °C / 14 °C
• Feb 32 °C / 17 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 21 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• May 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 36 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in May get hotter than it likes. Young plants need shade and water then.

Soil

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

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

Likes pH 5.5–8.0.

Money

Yield: about 149 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

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.