Beans (Vegetable)

A monsoon crop. Sow in Jun–Jul, harvest in Sep–Oct.

Check it on your land
Season
Kharif
JJASONDJFMAM

Sowing Growing Harvest

Also grown in rabi.
Ready in
80 days
about 2½ months
Grows best at
16–25 °C
0 °C survives 7–32 °C 40 °C

When to sow and harvest

Kharif
Rabi
Today: rabi sowing time
J J A S O N D J F M A M
Sow Growing Harvest
The year starts in June, with the monsoon. Your district can shift a few weeks.

Sowing Growing Harvest

Will it grow on your land?

Kullu Himachal Pradesh
Water
Season

Won't work: too cold in January

Beans (Vegetable)

JJASONDJFMAM

Sow in October, harvest around April

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. Sold at 5 mandis in your district.

₹2.0 lakh–₹3.0 lakh

per acre a season, before costs

After typical costs: ₹52,000–₹1.5 lakh an acre a season

  • Needs care: Risky: 2 irrigations short
  • Doesn't suit: Too cold in january
  • Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work

Water

Rain falls about 2 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 330 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 180 mm it can use in a normal year (110 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 80 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 16–25 °C on average, and survives 7–32 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

  • Oct 22 °C / 12 °C
  • Nov 18 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
  • Dec 14 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
  • Jan 11 °C / 2 °C (outside its best range)
  • Feb 14 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
  • Mar 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)

Nights in November can bring frost while the plants are young. Sow a little later, or cover the seedlings on cold nights.

Soil

Soil for Beans (Vegetable): 9 out of 10 (good).

  • The pH here suits it.
  • Low nitrogen matters less: it makes its own.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

How the soil score works

Money

Yield: about 53 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

On rain alone it gets about 79% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 79% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (April–May 2026): about ₹5,900 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Average mandi price each year (₹ a quintal):
  1. ₹3,500 2021
  2. ₹4,500 2022
  3. ₹4,000 2023
  4. ₹4,730 2024
  5. ₹5,130 2025

Prices are usually best in May.

Typical costs are about ₹1.5 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.

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What it needs

Temperature

16–25 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 7–32 °C. Frost hurts it.

Water

The check above works out its water need on your land.

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 4 to 9.

Soil

  • No salty soil
  • Ordinary farm soil is fine
  • N Makes its own nitrogen
  • K Needs plenty of potassium
How the soil score works

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

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra for the dose.

Watch out for

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to watch 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 season

₹60,300

Yield India's average
39.1 quintals an acre
× Price harvest price last season (Jan–Feb 2026)
₹3,439 a quintal
= Income
₹1,34,500
− Costs about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys
−₹74,200
= Left
₹60,300

A good year or field earns about a fifth more, a poor one a fifth less: ₹1,07,600 to ₹1,61,300 income an acre. Costs stay the same either way.

Work it out for your land

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
June, ₹7,000 a quintal
Lowest
January, ₹3,150 a quintal
₹3,150
₹7,000
J F M A M J J A S O N D

Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis: each month's latest price (Dec 2025–Nov 2026).

Latest prices near Kullu Today's price across India

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India
7.5 lakh acres
2025-26
Average yield
39.1 quintals an acre (9.7 tonnes a hectare)
2025-26
Most area
Gujarat
25% 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.