Beans (Vegetable)

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 290 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 480 mm it can use in a normal year, and 390 mm in a dry year.

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):

• Jul 32 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 31 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 31 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen.

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

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 this season's harvest so far (October–November 2026): about ₹5,000 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹4,925 a quintal, the middle of 142 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹88,000 a season after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in June.

Typical costs are about ₹1.0 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.