Beans (Vegetable)

Water

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

Needs about 250 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 90 mm it can use in a normal year (50 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 190 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

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

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

• Oct 26 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 26 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 16 °C

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 43 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 (January–February 2026): about ₹3,145 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in May.

Typical costs are about ₹82,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.