Tomato
Sow in July, harvest around November
This season's sowing time (June–July) is over.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹1.4 lakh–₹2.1 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
At typical costs, from a loss of ₹42,000 to a profit of ₹27,000 an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- 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 490 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 550 mm it can use in a normal year, and 450 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 20–27 °C on average, and survives 7–35 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jul 30 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 31 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 31 °C / 21 °C
- Nov 29 °C / 15 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
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 114 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 (December 2025): about ₹1,500 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹1,200 a quintal, the middle of 55 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would lose about ₹42,000 a season at typical costs.
- ₹1,040 2021
- ₹1,280 2022
- ₹950 2023
- ₹1,650 2024
- ₹1,400 2025
Prices are usually best in July.
Typical costs are about ₹1.8 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.