Tamarind

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 1,380 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 590 mm it can use in a normal year, and 440 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 20–35 °C on average, and survives 12–45 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 40 °C / 28 °C
• Jul 33 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 24 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 28 °C / 12 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 23 °C
• May 43 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 40 °C / 28 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Tamarind: 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of sulphur, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 5.5–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 13 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 6 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–April 2026): about ₹5,200 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹10,000 a quintal, the middle of 16 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in October.

Typical costs are about ₹34,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.