Tobacco

Water

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

Needs about 300 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 20 mm it can use in a normal year (10 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 90 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 32 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 11 °C
• Dec 21 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 22 °C / 9 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Tobacco: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

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

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 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).

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.