Gram (Chana)
Sow in October, harvest around February
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 2 mandis in your district.
₹28,000–₹42,000
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹10,000–₹24,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 1 irrigation short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Not known: No soil data
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 1 irrigation (5 cm) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 240 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 50 mm it can use in a normal year (30 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 150 mm from the monsoon at sowing.
Temperature
Grows best at 15–29 °C on average, and survives 7–35 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Oct 28 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 25 °C / 13 °C
- Dec 22 °C / 9 °C
- Jan 22 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Likes pH 6.0–8.5. We have no pH figures for this place.
Money
Yield: about 4.9 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (your district's own figure looked wrong).
On rain alone it gets about 82% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 82% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–March 2026): about ₹8,750 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹7,000 a quintal, the middle of 283 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹10,000 a season after typical costs.
Minimum support price: ₹5,958 a quintal (2027-28), if you sell to government procurement.
- ₹7,750 2023
- ₹8,750 2024
- ₹9,750 2025
Prices are usually best in January.
Typical costs are about ₹19,000 an acre (seed, fertiliser, labour and hired machines, from the government's cost survey). They are spent whatever the harvest.