Sweet Potato
Sow in June, harvest around October
This season's sowing time (June–July) is over.
Grown on 44 acres here. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹2.1 lakh–₹3.1 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹1.5 lakh–₹2.5 lakh an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough, even in a dry year.
Needs about 400 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,700 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,280 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 18–28 °C on average, and survives 10–38 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 30 °C / 24 °C
- Jul 28 °C / 23 °C
- Aug 29 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 30 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 31 °C / 24 °C
Soil
Soil for Sweet Potato: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of sulphur.
Likes pH 5.0–7.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 58 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).
Mandi price at this season's harvest so far (October–November 2026): about ₹4,525 a quintal across mandis in your state.
- ₹2,750 2021
- ₹3,180 2022
- ₹2,610 2023
- ₹4,030 2024
- ₹3,800 2025
Prices are usually best in September.
Typical costs are about ₹59,000 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 sulphur Your soil is likely short of sulphur.
Use single super phosphate instead of DAP, or add about 100 kg of gypsum per acre before sowing.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.