Beans (Vegetable)

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 310 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,370 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,210 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 32 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• 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.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 21 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 ₹57,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.