Tomato
Sow in November, 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. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹1.2 lakh–₹1.8 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹39,000–₹98,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 3 irrigations short
- Needs care: Cool in December
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 3 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 460 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 120 mm it can use in a normal year (60 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 28 °C / 16 °C
- Dec 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 25 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 28 °C / 16 °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.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of boron.
Likes pH 5.5–6.8.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 94 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
On rain alone it gets about 70% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 70% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (April–May 2026): about ₹2,225 a quintal across mandis in your state.
Prices are usually best in July.
Typical costs are about ₹78,000 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
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Short of boron Your soil is likely short of boron.
Mix 4 kg of borax per acre into the soil before sowing.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.