Beans (Vegetable)

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 250 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 370 mm it can use in a normal year (260 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 40 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

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

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

• Oct 33 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 30 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 29 °C / 21 °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.
• Low nitrogen matters less: it makes its own.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of iron.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

Money

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

Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹5,800 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Prices are usually best in August.

Typical costs are about ₹74,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.