Tomato
Sow in October, harvest around April
Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Sold at 2 mandis in your district.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Needs care: Risky: 5 irrigations short
- Needs care: Frost risk in January
- Suits: Soil 10/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 5 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 490 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 90 mm it can use in a normal year (50 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 170 mm from the monsoon at sowing.
Temperature
Grows best at 20–27 °C on average, and survives 7–35 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Oct 27 °C / 17 °C
- Nov 23 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 16 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 20 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 25 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 31 °C / 18 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Nights in January can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.
Soil
Soil for Tomato: 10 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen, organic carbon, sulphur and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 5.5–6.8.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 127 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (May 2026): about ₹1,800 a quintal at mandis in your district.
- ₹2,650 2022
- ₹1,900 2023
- ₹3,200 2024
- ₹2,350 2025
Prices are usually best in December.
Typical costs are about ₹1.1 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.
How to make it work
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 100%