Tamarind
Will it grow on your land?
Pick your place and water to see:
- Whether Tamarind suits your land Good fit, possible or won't work, with the reasons.
- What it could earn an acre From yields near you and mandi prices.
- Water and fertiliser it needs Irrigations for your water, and bags for one acre.
What it needs
Temperature
Survives 12–45 °C. Frost hurts it.
Water
The check above works out its water need on your land.
Soil pH
Likes slightly acidic soil. Grows from pH 4.5 to 8.5.
Soil
- Copes with salty soil
- Ordinary farm soil is fine
- K Needs plenty of potassium and sulphur
Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°); TerraClimate 1991–2020 temperature normals (about 4 km), where each district's villages are.
Fertiliser for one acre
Watch out for
What an acre earns
At India's average yield and a recent price, named below. Your land, water and mandi will differ.
Left an acre, a year, once it bears
₹33,300
- Yield India's average
- 12.9 quintals an acre
- × Price harvest price last season (Feb–Apr 2026)
- ₹5,200 a quintal
- = Income
- ₹67,300
- − Costs about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys
- −₹34,000
- = Left
- ₹33,300
This week tamarind sells at about ₹9,500 a quintal: India's middle price at 16 mandis, latest 12 Nov. At that price an acre would leave about ₹88,900 a year.
A good year or field earns about a fifth more, a poor one a fifth less: ₹53,800 to ₹80,700 income an acre. Costs stay the same either way.
It bears from about year 6: nothing to sell before.
Work it out for your landMandi price, month by month
Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis: each month's latest price (Dec 2025–Nov 2026).
Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).
Where it grows in India
- Area grown in India
- 86,954 acres
- 2025-26
- Average yield
- 12.9 quintals an acre (3.2 tonnes a hectare)
- 2025-26
- Most area
- Tamil Nadu
- 39% of India's
States that grow it
Each state's share of India's production, in its latest year with figures (2025-26). Tap a state to open it.
Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).
Where it grows most
The districts with the most area in recent years. The map colours every district growing it on at least 100 ha by yield; the numbers mark these districts.
No recent district figures for this crop.