Green Peas

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 160 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 80 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 10–24 °C on average, and survives 4–30 °C.

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

• Nov 20 °C / 9 °C
• Dec 16 °C / 6 °C
• Jan 13 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 16 °C / 7 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Green Peas: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: sulphur and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Low nitrogen matters less: it makes its own.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 54 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–March 2026): about ₹2,525 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in September.

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.