Tomato
Sow in June, harvest around October
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 ₹11,000 to a profit of ₹59,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 2 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 2 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 550 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 500 mm it can use in a normal year, and 270 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):
- Jun 36 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 31 °C / 23 °C
- Aug 30 °C / 23 °C
- Sep 30 °C / 22 °C
- Oct 31 °C / 21 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Tomato: 8 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of zinc.
Likes pH 5.5–6.8.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 115 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
On rain alone it gets about 90% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 90% of this yield.
Mandi price at this season's harvest so far (October–November 2026): about ₹1,700 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹1,600 a quintal, the middle of 13 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹14,000 a season after typical costs.
- ₹880 2021
- ₹1,130 2022
- ₹1,150 2023
- ₹1,530 2024
- ₹1,550 2025
Prices are usually best in June.
Typical costs are about ₹1.5 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.
How to make it work
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Short of nitrogen Your soil is likely short of nitrogen.
Add about a quarter more urea than the usual dose, in two or three splits. A pulse crop in rotation also adds nitrogen.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
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Short of zinc Your soil is likely short of zinc.
Mix 10 kg of zinc sulphate per acre into the soil before sowing. One dose lasts two or three seasons.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.