Tobacco

Water

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

Needs about 500 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 370 mm it can use in a normal year, and 250 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 28 °C / 17 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 17 °C
• Sep 25 °C / 13 °C
• Oct 21 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 15 °C / 3 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 10 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 6 °C / -3 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 8 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 14 °C / 2 °C (outside its best range)

Soil

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

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

Likes pH 5.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 8.5 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

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 (April–May 2026): about ₹4,550 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 ₹14,000 a season at typical costs.

Prices are usually best in December.

Typical costs are about ₹28,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.