Green Peas
Sow in October, harvest around January
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 1 mandi in your district.
₹35,000–₹52,000
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹5,000–₹22,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 1 irrigation short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
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 280 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 50 mm it can use in a normal year (10 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 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 32 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 30 °C / 19 °C
- Dec 26 °C / 14 °C
- Jan 26 °C / 13 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Green Peas: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 5.5–7.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 22 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
On rain alone it gets about 89% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 89% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹2,200 a quintal at mandis in your district.
Prices are usually best in December.
Typical costs are about ₹30,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.