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 your state.
₹2.1 lakh–₹3.2 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹1.5 lakh–₹2.6 lakh an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 3 irrigations short
- Needs care: Cool in November
- 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 560 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 230 mm it can use in a normal year (140 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 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 25 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 27 °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.
Likes pH 5.5–6.8.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 65 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
On rain alone it gets about 76% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 76% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (June 2026): about ₹5,300 a quintal across mandis in your state.
- ₹1,950 2021
- ₹2,700 2022
- ₹4,150 2024
Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.
Prices are usually best in June.
Typical costs are about ₹57,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.