Tobacco

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 400 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 800 mm it can use in a normal year, and 690 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 34 °C / 24 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 22 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 22 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 30 °C / 20 °C

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

Likes pH 5.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 2.6 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

Mandi price at this season's harvest so far (October 2026): about ₹6,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.

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 ₹17,000 a season at typical costs.

Prices are usually best in May.

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.