Tomato
Sow in November, harvest around May
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 India.
₹71,000–₹1.1 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹34,000–₹69,000 an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Needs care: Cool in November
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.
Needs about 530 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 280 mm it can use in a normal year (190 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 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 24 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 20 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 18 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 20 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 25 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- May 27 °C / 17 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Tomato: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
Likes pH 5.5–6.8.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 42 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
Mandi price at last season's harvest (May–June 2026): about ₹2,100 a quintal across India's mandis.
- ₹1,320 2021
- ₹1,850 2022
- ₹1,380 2023
- ₹2,250 2024
- ₹1,990 2025
Prices are usually best in December.
Typical costs are about ₹37,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.