Tomato
Sow in November, harvest around June
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 here in this season
- Suits: Soil 9/10
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 720 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 220 mm it can use in a normal year (140 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 170 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 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 16 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 13 °C / 3 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 17 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 27 °C / 14 °C
- May 29 °C / 18 °C
- Jun 29 °C / 19 °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).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 5.5–6.8.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 41 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 (June–July 2026): about ₹1,400 a quintal across mandis in your state.
- ₹1,110 2021
- ₹1,550 2022
- ₹1,180 2023
- ₹1,650 2024
- ₹1,380 2025
Prices are usually best in December.
Typical costs are about ₹37,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.