Tapioca (Cassava)

Planted once, harvested year after year.

Check it on your land
Season
Whole year
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100% of its area.
Water
990–1,060 mm
over its season
Temperature
20–29 °C
0° survives 10–35 °C 40°

When to sow and harvest

Planted once at the start of the monsoon. It stays for years and gives a harvest every year.

Will it grow on your land?

Water
Season

Pick your place and water to see:

  • Whether Tapioca (Cassava) suits your land Good fit, possible or won't work, with the reasons.
  • What it could earn an acre From yields near you and mandi prices.
  • Water and fertiliser it needs Irrigations for your water, and bags for one acre.

What it needs

Temperature

20–29 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 10–35 °C. Frost hurts it.

Water

990–1,060 mm over its season

Rain and irrigation together, worked out where most of it grows:

Namakkal Kallakurichi East Godavari Thiruvananthapuram Kollam

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 4 to 9.

Soil

  • No salty soil
  • Ordinary farm soil is fine
  • N Needs plenty of nitrogen and potassium
How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°).

Fertiliser for one acre

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra for the dose.

Watch out for

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to watch for.

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
August, ₹3,150
Lowest
June, ₹2,800
₹2,800
₹3,150
J F M A M J J A S O N D

Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis.

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India
1,60,255 ha
2022-23
Average yield
36.9 t/ha
2022-23
Most area
Namakkal
Tamil Nadu
Best yield
Ernakulam
50.8 t/ha

States that grow it

Production in each state's latest year with figures (2025-26).

  1. Tamil Nadu 38.1 lakh t
  2. Kerala 21.2 lakh t
  3. Andhra Pradesh 3.3 lakh t
  4. Nagaland 63,597 t
  5. Assam 35,300 t
  6. Meghalaya 32,837 t
  7. Odisha 25,570 t
  8. Karnataka 4,434 t
  9. Puducherry 1,523 t
  10. Andaman And Nicobar Islands 932 t

Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).

Districts with the most area (recent figures)

The map colours each district by yield, for districts growing it on at least 100 ha.

  1. Namakkal, Tamil Nadu 18,491 ha
  2. Kallakurichi, Tamil Nadu 14,759 ha
  3. Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 12,708 ha
  4. Kollam, Kerala 12,484 ha
  5. Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu 12,152 ha
  6. Salem, Tamil Nadu 11,096 ha
  7. Erode, Tamil Nadu 8,243 ha
  8. Kottayam, Kerala 6,275 ha
  9. Viluppuram, Tamil Nadu 5,861 ha
  10. Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu 5,577 ha

Tapioca (Cassava) yield

  1. 5.7–10.3 t/ha
  2. 10.8–18.9 t/ha
  3. 19.0–35.7 t/ha
  4. 35.7–40.0 t/ha
  5. 41.0–50.8 t/ha
No data

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2013-14 to 2022-23.

Where yields are highest

  1. Ernakulam, Kerala 50.8 t/ha
  2. Thrissur, Kerala 50.4 t/ha
  3. Kottayam, Kerala 49.2 t/ha
  4. Idukki, Kerala 48.9 t/ha
  5. Pathanamthitta, Kerala 48.7 t/ha
  6. Palakkad, Kerala 45.7 t/ha
  7. Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu 45.6 t/ha
  8. Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu 44.0 t/ha
  9. Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu 43.9 t/ha
  10. Kallakurichi, Tamil Nadu 43.7 t/ha

Only districts growing it on at least 100 ha.

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2013-14 to 2022-23.

Across India over the years

Yield (t/ha)

28.9 34.9 40.9
2013-14 2022-23
Latest 36.9 t/ha in 2022-23

Area (ha)

157K 172K 186K
2013-14 2022-23
Latest 1,60,255 ha in 2022-23

Only years in which most of the usual districts reported are shown.

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2013-14 to 2022-23.

Soil and yield

How district soil tests line up with this crop's yields across India.

Tapioca (Cassava) yields tend to be higher in districts with

  • More soil low in nitrogen strong 71 districts
  • More soil high in potassium moderate 71 districts

Tapioca (Cassava) yields tend to be lower in districts with

  • More soil medium in nitrogen strong 71 districts
  • More soil high in nitrogen strong 71 districts
  • More soil short of copper strong 71 districts
  • More soil that is acidic moderate 71 districts

A pattern is not proof that soil causes the difference.

Source: Soil Health Card – soil nutrient analysis (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).