🌾 Smart Khedut Cost, yield and profit per acre — farm by farm, village by village

🌽 Maize

Cereal · Kharif · Duration 105 days

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All-India recorded figures

5
Farms reporting
26
Total area (acre)
19.35
Avg yield / acre
₹18,479
Avg cost / acre
₹39,275
Avg revenue / acre
₹20,796
Avg profit / acre
₹2,029
Avg sale rate
₹22,000
Reference cost per acre

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Where the money goes

Fertilizer
₹6,859
Sowing
₹3,110
Weeding
₹1,969
Plant protection
₹1,706
Harvest
₹1,675
Land preparation
₹1,667
Irrigation
₹1,236
Post harvest
₹257

per acre

Top districts by profit per acre

DistrictFarms reporting Total areaAvg yield / acre Avg cost / acreAvg profit / acre
Nashik 3 14.4 20.32 ₹19,465 ₹21,929

Yield per acre by year / Profit per acre by year

Reference crop schedule

Reference cost per acre: ₹22,000
Days from sowingStage ActivityCategory Indicative cost / acre
-15–-8 Pre-sowing Field preparation
Two harrowings and levelling.
Land preparation ₹1,750
-6–-2 Pre-sowing Basal fertilizer + FYM
5 t FYM + 50 kg DAP per acre.
Fertilizer ₹4,100
0–2 Sowing Sowing
8 kg seed/acre at 60x20 cm.
Sowing ₹3,250
18–25 Seedling First weeding
Weed free for the first 35 days.
Weeding ₹1,900
25–32 Knee high First urea top dressing
35 kg urea at knee-high stage.
Fertilizer ₹1,400
20–45 Vegetative Fall armyworm scouting
Check whorls weekly; spray on ETL.
Plant protection ₹1,600
45–52 Tasseling Second urea top dressing
35 kg urea before tasseling.
Fertilizer ₹1,400
48–56 Tasseling Irrigation at tasseling
Most critical irrigation stage.
Irrigation ₹750
65–75 Grain filling Irrigation at grain filling
Keep soil moist at grain filling.
Irrigation ₹750
95–105 Harvest Harvesting cobs
Harvest at black layer formation.
Harvest ₹3,500
100–112 Post harvest Shelling and drying
Dry grain to 12% moisture.
Post harvest ₹1,600
Total₹22,000