Green Peas

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 220 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 180 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):

• Oct 28 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 24 °C / 13 °C
• Dec 21 °C / 9 °C
• Jan 20 °C / 6 °C

Soil

Soil for Green Peas: 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• 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 manganese.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 46 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹2,244 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in October.

Typical costs are about ₹62,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.