Tobacco

Water

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

Needs about 380 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 420 mm it can use in a normal year (210 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 40 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 / 24 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 23 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 22 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 21 °C
• Feb 31 °C / 22 °C

Soil

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

Not in the score: organic carbon, sulphur and boron.

• 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 8.5 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (your district's own figure looked wrong).

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 ₹3,000 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.