Tomato
Sow in June, harvest around October
This season's sowing time (June–July) is over.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Sold at 2 mandis in your district.
₹87,000–₹1.3 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹13,000–₹57,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 3 irrigations short
- Needs care: Very hot in June
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 3 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 600 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 480 mm it can use in a normal year, and 330 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 20–27 °C on average, and survives 7–35 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 41 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 32 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 33 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 35 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Days in June get hotter than it likes. Time sowing so it flowers before then.
Soil
Soil for Tomato: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
- Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
Likes pH 5.5–6.8.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 56 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
On rain alone it gets about 81% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 81% of this yield.
Mandi price at this season's harvest so far (October–November 2026): about ₹2,400 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹1,500 a quintal, the middle of 23 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would lose about ₹6,000 a season at typical costs.
- ₹1,000 2021
- ₹1,630 2022
- ₹1,100 2023
- ₹1,950 2024
- ₹1,500 2025
Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.
Prices are usually best in June.
Typical costs are about ₹73,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.
How to make it work
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Short of organic carbon Your soil is likely short of organic carbon.
Add 4 tonnes of compost or farmyard manure per acre before sowing, and plough crop leftovers back in instead of burning them.
Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 20%