Beans (Vegetable)

Water

Rain falls about 2 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 280 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 0 mm it can use in a normal year (0 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):

• Nov 31 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 15 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 16 °C

Soil

Soil for Beans (Vegetable): 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: zinc, iron and boron.

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• Low nitrogen matters less: it makes its own.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of manganese.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 59 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

On rain alone it gets about 72% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 72% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–March 2026): about ₹2,488 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in May.

Typical costs are about ₹1.2 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.