Tomato
Sow in October, harvest around September
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. Priced from mandis across your state.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Needs care: Risky: 7 irrigations short
- Doesn't suit: Too cold in november
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 7 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 810 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 400 mm it can use in a normal year (320 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 80 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 16 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 9 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 3 °C / -7 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan -2 °C / -10 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 1 °C / -8 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 6 °C / -4 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 12 °C / 3 °C (outside its best range)
- May 18 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 22 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 22 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 21 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
Nights in October 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 (September–October 2026): about ₹2,625 a quintal across mandis in your state.
- ₹2,010 2021
- ₹2,590 2022
- ₹1,960 2023
- ₹3,300 2024
- ₹2,430 2025
Prices are usually best in December.
Typical costs are about ₹1.5 lakh 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 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 100% of local fields of this crop get it.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Nitro Phosphate Potash 100%
- NPK Mixture 100%
- Urea 100%