Tobacco

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 260 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 110 mm it can use in a normal year (50 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 180 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 15–30 °C on average, and survives 7–35 °C.

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

• Oct 28 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 24 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 17 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 21 °C / 10 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Tobacco: 10 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 5.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 8.5 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹4,353 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹2,300 a quintal, the middle of 7 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would lose about ₹7,000 a season at typical costs.

Prices are usually best in December.

Typical costs are about ₹27,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.