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.
₹2.0 lakh–₹3.0 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹22,000–₹1.2 lakh 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 530 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 580 mm it can use in a normal year, and 430 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 31 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 31 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 32 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 32 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 31 °C / 17 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Tomato: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: zinc, iron, copper and manganese.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
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).
Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025): about ₹2,200 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 ₹4,000 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 ₹1.8 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.