Tobacco

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 410 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 970 mm it can use in a normal year, and 840 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

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

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

• Jun 28 °C / 22 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 22 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 22 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 28 °C / 21 °C

Soil

Soil for Tobacco: 7 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: salt, sulphur, zinc and 4 more.

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
• Most fields here are short of potassium.

Likes pH 5.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 4.8 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).

Mandi price at this season's harvest so far (October–November 2026): about ₹2,609 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 ₹12,000 a season at typical costs.

Prices are usually best in December.

Typical costs are about ₹23,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.