Tobacco

Water

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

Needs about 290 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 70 mm it can use in a normal year (30 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 190 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 26 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 24 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 11 °C
• Jan 22 °C / 10 °C
• Feb 24 °C / 11 °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 potassium.

Likes pH 5.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 4.8 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–March 2026): about ₹3,978 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 (2022–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.