Tobacco

Water

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

Needs about 540 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 140 mm it can use in a normal year, and 90 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

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

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

• Jun 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 35 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 34 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 18 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in June get hotter than it likes. Time sowing so it flowers before then.

Soil

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

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

Likes pH 5.0–6.5.

Money

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

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 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).

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.