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. Sold at 4 mandis in your district.
₹5.3 lakh–₹8.0 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹3.4 lakh–₹6.0 lakh an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 10/10
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 480 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 520 mm it can use in a normal year, and 460 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 32 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 31 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
- Oct 29 °C / 18 °C
- Nov 24 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Tomato: 10 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 5.5–6.8.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 127 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 ₹5,250 a quintal at mandis in your district.
- ₹2,100 2021
- ₹2,780 2022
- ₹2,330 2023
- ₹3,650 2024
- ₹3,080 2025
Prices are usually best in December.
Typical costs are about ₹2.0 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.