How to Use the Khetigpt Crop Planner: A Step-by-Step Guide for Your Whole Season

Plan a crop, see your likely profit before you sow, track every task and rupee, get rain warnings before you spray, and close the season knowing exactly how you did. Here is the full walkthrough — with a real onion example from Nashik — of Khetigpt's free crop planner.

From "ask a question" to "run your farm like a business"

Most farming apps answer questions. The Khetigpt Crop Planner does something bigger: it helps you plan, run, and profit from a whole crop season — like a project. You tell it what you want to grow, and it builds a complete season plan with a likely-profit estimate, a task calendar, an expense tracker, weather-aware reminders, a crop diary, and a final results card that compares what you planned to what you actually earned.

It is free for farmers, works in Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu and English, and runs in any phone browser — no app to install. This guide walks you through every step. We will follow one real example throughout: 2 acres of onion in Nashik, Maharashtra.

Before you start: one-time sign-in

The planner lives at the "My Season" page. To keep the service authentic and your data yours, the planner uses the same phone number you registered in the chat.

• Open Khetigpt and tap the chat. The first time, it asks for your name, phone and a little about your farm. Enter it once.
• Now open the menu and tap the item that reads "🌾 My Season". That is your planner home.

If you open "My Season" before registering, it will gently point you to the chat first. After that, the same phone opens the same dashboard on any device.

Step 1: Create your season

On the "My Season" home, tap the "+ New" button. You will see a short form. Only the crop and area are required — everything else is optional and helps make the plan sharper.

• Crop: start typing and pick from the list, or type any crop you grow. There are over sixty crops ready, and if yours is not listed, the planner still builds a sensible plan for it.
• Area in acres: for our example, 2.
• Variety, water availability, irrigation type, sowing date: optional. We chose drip irrigation and a June sowing date.
• Revenue goal and budget: optional, but useful — set a target you are aiming for and the spend you can afford.

Tap create. In a few seconds the planner generates your full season. Behind the scenes it pulls the package of practices for your crop, your district's real recent market price, and typical yield and cost figures — then writes it all up in your language.

Step 2: Read your plan and your profit estimate

The first thing you see is the projection — your likely profit, shown as a range, not a single fake number.

For our 2-acre Nashik onion plan, the planner showed a projected net of roughly ₹1.4 lakh to ₹3.3 lakh, based on a real recent mandi price of about ₹1,414 per quintal. Below the range it shows your expected cost and, once you start logging, what you have spent so far against your budget.

Why a range and not one number? Because honest is better than impressive. Your real result depends on yield and the price on your selling day, and nobody can promise those. The planner shows the low, the likely, and the high — and the maths behind them — so you can plan with your eyes open.

Under the projection you will find the rest of the plan, each section written simply:

• A short season summary.
• Fertilizer guidance, organic and soil-test-led first.
• Irrigation advice tied to your water situation, with the PMKSY drip subsidy mentioned when it fits.
• Labour, market and risk notes.

Step 3: Work through your tasks

Scroll to the task list. The planner has already laid out dated milestones for your whole season — land prep, sowing, each fertilizer top-dressing, scouting for pests, and harvest — each with a due date calculated from your sowing date.

As you finish each one, tap the checkbox. The task gets ticked off and your progress bar moves. You do not have to remember the calendar yourself — the planner remembers it for you and will remind you as dates approach.

Step 4: Log expenses the easy way

This is where the planner becomes your account book. There are three ways to record a cost, from fastest to most manual.

• Just type it. In the quick-add box, write a normal sentence like "bought DAP for 3200" and tap the ✨ Add button. The planner reads it, files it under the right category (here, fertilizer), and updates your spend. You can write it in your own language.
• Snap the bill. Tap the 📷 camera button next to quick-add and photograph the shop receipt. The planner reads the total off the bill and records the expense for you — no typing.
• Enter it by hand. If you prefer, open "Enter manually" and fill in the amount and category yourself.

Every expense you add updates your budget bar, so you always know how much of your planned spend is left.

Step 5: Check your daily brief — and the rain warning

Back on the "My Season" home, above your crops, you will see a "🌅 Today" card whenever something needs attention. It gathers, across all your crops:

• anything overdue,
• anything due today,
• what is coming up in the next few days,
• and a price re-plan tip if the market has moved.

Most importantly, if you have a spraying, fertilizer, or irrigation task coming up and rain is likely in your district in the next couple of days, the brief shows a 🌧 warning telling you to hold off — so a spray you paid for does not get washed away. This is the planner acting like a manager, not just a calendar.

Step 6: Keep a crop journal

Open any crop and find the "📔 Crop journal" section. Through the season you can:

• type a quick observation ("leaves yellowing at the tips") to build a dated record, or
• tap 📷 to photograph the crop. The planner runs an AI check on the photo and saves its reading — likely pest, disease or deficiency, with safe first steps — straight into your journal.

Over time this becomes a timeline of your crop's health that you, and any expert you ask, can look back on.

Step 7: Keep your estimate fresh

Prices move. On a crop's page, near the projection, tap "🔄 Update prices". The planner re-checks the latest market price and recalculates your estimate. If your expected return has shifted a lot, it adds a short tip — for example, suggesting you plan storage and selling if prices have risen, or trim non-essential costs if they have softened. The decision always stays yours.

Step 8: Close the season and see how you really did

When harvest is done, open the crop and find the "🌾 Harvest & results" section, then "Record harvest". Enter what actually happened:

• harvest date,
• actual yield in quintals,
• the price you sold at (or your total revenue if you sold in lots),
• and the buyer.

Tap save. The planner closes the season and shows your results card: your actual net income, and how it compares to the plan. In our onion example, recording 240 quintals sold at ₹1,600 produced an actual net well above the original estimate, shown clearly as a plus-percent against the plan. Now you know — in numbers — exactly how the season went.

See all your crops together: the portfolio

If you run more than one crop, the "My Season" home rolls them all up for you, like a small business dashboard:

• forecast profit across your growing crops,
• booked profit from seasons you have already closed,
• total spent against budget,
• and how many crops are active versus finished.

Plant cotton, onion and turmeric at once, and you can see your whole farm's expected and earned money in one glance.

A few honest notes

• The profit figure is an estimate, shown as a range, built from real yield and price data — never a promise. Your decisions stay yours.
• Khetigpt never sells you a product, never takes a commission, and points you to official sources for prices and schemes.
• For crops we have not fully curated yet, the planner still builds a working schedule, but it will not show a revenue estimate until it has verified yield and cost data — it would rather say "not yet" than make a number up.
• Everything here is free for farmers, funded by well-wishers and companies who sponsor the service.

Start your first season

Open Khetigpt, tap "🌾 My Season", and create a plan for whatever you are sowing next. It takes two minutes to set up and runs with you for the whole season — planning, reminding, tracking, and finally showing you what you earned.