Tobacco

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 440 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 410 mm it can use in a normal year (310 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 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):

• Nov 20 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 16 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 15 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 16 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 22 °C / 11 °C
• May 24 °C / 13 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Tobacco: 9 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 (May–June 2026): about ₹3,994 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 ₹5,000 a season at typical costs.

Prices are usually best in December.

Typical costs are about ₹25,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.