Beans (Vegetable)
Sow in June, harvest around September
This season's sowing time (June–July) is over.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹2.3 lakh–₹3.5 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹79,000–₹2.0 lakh an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Needs care: Warm in June
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
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 430 mm it can use in a normal year, and 300 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 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 31 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 30 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Beans (Vegetable): 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Low nitrogen matters less: it makes its own.
- Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 59 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 ₹5,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.
- ₹3,250 2021
- ₹4,430 2022
- ₹3,800 2023
- ₹3,500 2024
- ₹3,380 2025
Prices are usually best in May.
Typical costs are about ₹1.6 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.
How to make it work
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Short of organic carbon Your soil is likely short of organic carbon.
Add 4 tonnes of compost or farmyard manure per acre before sowing, and plough crop leftovers back in instead of burning them.
Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 100%
- Urea Ammonium Phosphate 100%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 34%
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 13%