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. Priced from mandis across India.
₹76,000–₹1.1 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹6,000–₹44,000 an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Doesn't suit: Too cold here in this season
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough, even in a dry year.
Needs about 720 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 1,040 mm it can use in a normal year (720 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 mm from the monsoon at sowing.
Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.
Temperature
Grows best at 20–27 °C on average, and survives 7–35 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Nov 20 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 16 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 15 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 16 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 22 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- May 24 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 25 °C / 16 °C
Nights in December can bring frost while the plants are young. Sow a little later, or cover the seedlings on cold nights.
Soil
Soil for Tomato: 9 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 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 (July–August 2026): about ₹2,250 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 ₹69,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2022–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.