Tamarind

Water

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

Needs about 1,440 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 420 mm it can use in a normal year, and 300 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 36 °C / 24 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 22 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 14 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 14 °C
• Feb 34 °C / 17 °C
• Mar 37 °C / 21 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 24 °C
• May 41 °C / 27 °C
• Jun 36 °C / 24 °C

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.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.

Likes pH 5.5–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 22 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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 (April 2026): about ₹9,701 a quintal at mandis in your district.

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

Prices are usually best in April.

Typical costs are about ₹59,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.