Tobacco

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 420 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,300 mm it can use in a normal year, and 990 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 31 °C / 24 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 30 °C / 22 °C

Soil

Soil for Tobacco: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: sulphur.

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

Likes pH 5.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 3.8 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).

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). At that price an acre would lose about ₹15,000 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 (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.