Beans (Vegetable)

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 320 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 300 mm it can use in a normal year, and 200 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

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

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

• Jul 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 33 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 39 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

Mandi price at this season's harvest so far (October–November 2026): about ₹4,200 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹4,000 a quintal, the middle of 2 mandis in your district (latest 12 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹52,000 a season after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in December.

Typical costs are about ₹1.0 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.