Green Peas

A winter crop. Sow in Oct–Nov, harvest in Jan–Feb.

Check it on your land
Season
Rabi
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Sowing Growing Harvest

Ready in
90 days
about 3 months
Grows best at
10–24 °C
0 °C survives 4–30 °C 40 °C

When to sow and harvest

Rabi
Today: rabi sowing time
J J A S O N D J F M A M
Sow Growing Harvest
The year starts in June, with the monsoon. Your district can shift a few weeks.

Sowing Growing Harvest

Will it grow on your land?

Pathanamthitta Kerala
Water
Season

Possible in Pathanamthitta, with effort

Green Peas

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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. Priced from mandis across India.

₹47,000–₹70,000

per acre a season, before costs

After typical costs: ₹12,000–₹35,000 an acre a season

  • Suits: Rain is enough
  • Needs care: Warm in October
  • Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 330 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 300 mm it can use in a normal year (220 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):

  • Oct 31 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
  • Nov 31 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
  • Dec 31 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
  • Jan 32 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen.

  • The pH here suits it.
  • Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

How the soil score works

Money

Yield: about 26 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 (January–February 2026): about ₹2,244 a quintal across India's mandis.

Average mandi price each year (₹ a quintal):
  1. ₹4,300 2021
  2. ₹4,640 2022
  3. ₹3,820 2023
  4. ₹5,000 2024
  5. ₹4,550 2025

Prices are usually best in October.

Typical costs are about ₹35,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.

How to make it work

  • Short of boron Your soil is likely short of boron.

    Mix 4 kg of borax per acre into the soil before sowing.

    Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.

What local farmers put on it (share of fields):

  • Muriate of Potash (MOP) 5%
  • Urea 4%
  • Ammonium Phosphate Sulphate / Nitrogen Phosphate 3%
  • NPK Mixture 3%
See every crop that suits Pathanamthitta

What it needs

Temperature

10–24 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 4–30 °C.

Water

The check above works out its water need on your land.

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 4.5 to 8.3.

Soil

  • No salty soil
  • Ordinary farm soil is fine
  • N Makes its own nitrogen
  • K Needs plenty of potassium
How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°); TerraClimate 1991–2020 temperature normals (about 4 km), where each district's villages are.

Fertiliser for one acre

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra for the dose.

Watch out for

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to watch for.

What an acre earns

At India's average yield and a recent price, named below. Your land, water and mandi will differ.

Left an acre, a season

₹42,100

Yield India's average
46.2 quintals an acre
× Price harvest price last season (Jan–Feb 2026)
₹2,244 a quintal
= Income
₹1,03,800
− Costs about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys
−₹61,700
= Left
₹42,100

A good year or field earns about a fifth more, a poor one a fifth less: ₹83,000 to ₹1,24,500 income an acre. Costs stay the same either way.

Work it out for your land

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
October, ₹7,800 a quintal
Lowest
February, ₹2,200 a quintal
₹2,200
₹7,800
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Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis: each month's latest price (Dec 2025–Nov 2026).

Latest prices near Pathanamthitta Today's price across India

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India
15.7 lakh acres
2025-26
Average yield
46.2 quintals an acre (11.4 tonnes a hectare)
2025-26
Most area
Uttar Pradesh
40% of India's

States that grow it

Each state's share of India's production, in its latest year with figures (2025-26). Tap a state to open it.

Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).

Where it grows most

The districts with the most area in recent years. The map colours every district growing it on at least 100 ha by yield; the numbers mark these districts.

No recent district figures for this crop.