Tapioca (Cassava)
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across India.
₹3.6 lakh–₹5.4 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
After typical costs: ₹1.1 lakh–₹2.9 lakh an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 8/10
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 950 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 850 mm it can use in a normal year, and 680 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 / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 33 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 33 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 33 °C / 25 °C
- Oct 32 °C / 22 °C
- Nov 29 °C / 15 °C
- Dec 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 26 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 32 °C / 16 °C
- Apr 36 °C / 21 °C
- May 36 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 35 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
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.
- Most fields here are short of zinc.
Likes pH 5.5–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
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 70 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹2.8 lakh a year after typical costs.
- ₹1,680 2021
- ₹3,000 2022
- ₹3,100 2023
- ₹3,000 2024
- ₹3,000 2025
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.
How to make it work
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Short of nitrogen Your soil is likely short of nitrogen.
Add about a quarter more urea than the usual dose, in two or three splits. A pulse crop in rotation also adds nitrogen.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
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Short of zinc Your soil is likely short of zinc.
Mix 10 kg of zinc sulphate per acre into the soil before sowing. One dose lasts two or three seasons.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.