Tomato
Sow in November, harvest around July
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 7 mandis in your district.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Needs care: Risky: 8 irrigations short
- Doesn't suit: Too cold in january
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 8 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 780 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 360 mm it can use in a normal year (220 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 40 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):
- Nov 18 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 14 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 11 °C / 2 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 14 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 24 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- May 27 °C / 15 °C
- Jun 28 °C / 16 °C
- Jul 25 °C / 18 °C
Nights in November can bring frost while the plants are young. Sow a little later, or cover the seedlings on cold nights.
Soil
Soil for Tomato: 8 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
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 (July–August 2026): about ₹1,750 a quintal at mandis in your district.
- ₹1,800 2021
- ₹2,430 2022
- ₹2,000 2023
- ₹2,800 2024
- ₹2,100 2025
Prices are usually best in December.
Typical costs are about ₹2.1 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2022–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.
How to make it work
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Short of nitrogen Your soil is likely short of nitrogen.
Add about a quarter more urea than the usual dose, in two or three splits. A pulse crop in rotation also adds nitrogen.
About 46% of local fields of this crop get it.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 46%