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 (60 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 180 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 27 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 19 °C
• Dec 27 °C / 17 °C

Soil

Soil for Beans (Vegetable): 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen and sulphur.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 45 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 ₹4,775 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in May.

Typical costs are about ₹85,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.