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Potato is one of the most important cash crops of the country in a place of pride in the vegetable kingdom. Potato grown in more than 100 countries in the world. The study was confined to the Gorakhpur district of eastern Uttar Pradesh. The district was selected purposively. 60 farmers were selected by simple random sampling method. There are 28 marginal 18 small, 8 medium and 6 large farmers from five selected villages of the one block of the district. The farm level data and required information of potato growing farmers pertaining to crop year 2019-2020. The overall cost of potato cultivation was worked out to be Rs 96272.30 per hectare. Which was highest for large (Rs.109402.21) size of holding followed by medium (Rs. 101713.80), small (Rs. 90349.28) marginal (Rs. 83623.96) size of holdings. The overall, cost A1 accounted 60.87 percent of total costs (cost C3). Cost A1 and cost A2 were found to be same as there was no land was taken on lease. Cost B1, cost B2, cost C1 and C2 was found to be 61.70, 82.15, 70.45 and 90.91 percent of cost C3, respectively. The cost C3 which take into account the managerial function performed by farmers was Rs.105899.53.The overall value of gross income, net income, farm business income and family labour income per hectare came to Rs. 257440.38, Rs. 161168.08, Rs. 192972.85, and Rs. 170435.55 respectively. The B: C which indicates the profitability of investment was observed to be 2.67 at the overall level. Non availability of quality seed was considered as major problems faced by potato growers. Lack of awareness regarding market price of potato was considered as the most important problems faced by the potato growers.