Beans (Vegetable)

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 400 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 80 mm it can use in a normal year, and 50 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):

• Jun 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 35 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)

Days in June get hotter than it likes. Time sowing so it flowers before then.

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 sulphur.
• Most fields here are short of manganese.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

Money

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

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (September–October 2026): about ₹4,100 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in March.

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.