Tobacco

Water

Rain falls about 3 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 480 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 350 mm it can use in a normal year, and 260 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):

• Jul 33 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 21 °C

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 organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

Likes pH 5.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 6.1 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

On rain alone it gets about 73% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 73% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025): about ₹6,500 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 ₹12,000 a season at typical costs.

Prices are usually best in December.

Typical costs are about ₹22,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.