Tamarind

Water

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

Needs about 1,430 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 590 mm it can use in a normal year, and 460 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 37 °C / 26 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 33 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 31 °C / 12 °C
• Jan 28 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 32 °C / 14 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 23 °C
• May 41 °C / 26 °C
• Jun 37 °C / 26 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Tamarind: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: salt.

• The pH here suits it.

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 ₹3,727 a quintal across mandis in your state.

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

Prices are usually best in January.

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.