Green Peas

Water

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

Needs about 320 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 240 mm it can use in a normal year (120 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 90 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 / 22 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 29 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 30 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: manganese.

• 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 zinc.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 32 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 ₹5,263 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in August.

Typical costs are about ₹43,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.