Beans (Vegetable)

Water

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

Needs about 310 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 280 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 32 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 32 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 32 °C / 24 °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.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Low nitrogen matters less: it makes its own.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 41 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

Mandi price at this season's harvest so far (October–November 2026): about ₹3,750 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹3,200 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹22,000 a season after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in June.

Typical costs are about ₹1.1 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.