Green Peas

Water

Rain falls about 2 irrigations (5 cm each) 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 20 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 29 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 27 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 24 °C / 10 °C
• Jan 24 °C / 10 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: phosphorus.

• The pH here suits it.
• Low nitrogen matters less: it makes its own.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of sulphur.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 56 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

On rain alone it gets about 79% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 79% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹2,946 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in December.

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.