Beans (Vegetable)
Sow in October, harvest around January
Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Sold at 1 mandi in your district.
₹1.6 lakh–₹2.5 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹1.1 lakh–₹1.9 lakh an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough, even in a dry year.
Needs about 200 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 60 mm it can use in a normal year (30 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 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 / 18 °C
- Nov 24 °C / 13 °C
- Dec 21 °C / 9 °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, though not most crops.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 29 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 (February 2026): about ₹7,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.
Prices are usually best in April.
Typical costs are about ₹55,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.