Tamarind

Water

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

Needs about 1,370 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 620 mm it can use in a normal year, and 470 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 35 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 35 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 35 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 23 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 21 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 21 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 21 °C
• Mar 35 °C / 23 °C
• Apr 36 °C / 26 °C
• May 38 °C / 27 °C
• Jun 37 °C / 26 °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 organic carbon.

Likes pH 5.5–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 12 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 (February 2026): about ₹13,500 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 swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in January.

Typical costs are about ₹31,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.