Beans (Vegetable)

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 280 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 760 mm it can use in a normal year, and 660 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

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

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

• Jun 28 °C / 21 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 22 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 22 °C

Soil

Soil for Beans (Vegetable): 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: salt, sulphur, zinc and 4 more.

• The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
• Low nitrogen matters less: it makes its own.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 11 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 (September–October 2026): about ₹4,750 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in June.

Typical costs are about ₹29,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.