Guar Seed (Cluster Bean)
A monsoon crop. Sow in Jun–Jul, harvest in Sep–Oct.
Sowing Growing Harvest
When to sow and harvest
Sowing Growing Harvest
Will it grow on your land?
Pick your place and water to see:
- Whether Guar Seed (Cluster Bean) suits your land Good fit, possible or won't work, with the reasons.
- What it could earn an acre From yields near you and mandi prices.
- Water and fertiliser it needs Irrigations for your water, and bags for one acre.
What it needs
Temperature
Survives 10–45 °C. Frost hurts it.
Water
Rain and irrigation together, worked out where most of it grows:
Soil pH
Likes alkaline soil. Grows from pH 5.5 to 9.
Soil
- Takes a little salt
- Ordinary farm soil is fine
- N Makes its own nitrogen
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
Draft: check with your KVKFor most fields
Give the DAP and MOP at sowing, and the urea in two or three doses. If your soil card says a nutrient is low, add about a quarter more of it.
Watch out for
Draft: check with your KVK-
Bacterial blightDisease
Look for
Water-soaked spots on the leaves and black streaks on the stems.
What to do first
Use treated seed and a resistant variety.
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Alternaria leaf spotDisease
Look for
Brown round spots on the leaves.
What to do first
Spray mancozeb when spots appear. Follow the label or your KVK for the dose.
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Root rotDisease
Look for
Plants dry in patches; roots rot.
What to do first
Rotate crops and treat seed with Trichoderma.
What an acre earns
At India's average yield and the usual price at harvest. Your land, water and mandi will differ.
Left an acre, a season
₹5,200
- Yield India's average
- 2.3 quintals an acre
- × Price usual mandi price in Sep, Oct
- ₹4,901 a quintal
- = Income
- ₹11,500
- − Costs about half of income, as in farm cost surveys
- −₹6,300
- = Left
- ₹5,200
A good year or field earns about a fifth more, a poor one a fifth less: ₹9,200 to ₹13,800 income an acre. Costs stay the same either way.
Work it out for your landMandi price, month by month
Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis. Average of 2021–2025.
Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).
Where it grows in India
- Area grown in India
- 76.7 lakh acres
- 2022-23
- Average yield
- 2.2 quintals an acre (0.5 tonnes a hectare)
- 2022-23
- Most area
- Bikaner
- Rajasthan
- Best yield
- Mansa
- 5.1 quintals an acre
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.
- 1 Bikaner Rajasthan 22% 15.8 lakh acres
- 2 Jaisalmer Rajasthan 17% 12.0 lakh acres
- 3 Hanumangarh Rajasthan 12% 8.9 lakh acres
- 4 Ganganagar Rajasthan 7.2% 5.2 lakh acres
- 5 Barmer Rajasthan 7.2% 5.2 lakh acres
- 6 Churu Rajasthan 6.5% 4.6 lakh acres
- 7 Phalodi Rajasthan 5.1% 3.7 lakh acres
- 8 Nagaur Rajasthan 3.6% 2.6 lakh acres
- 9 Sikar Rajasthan 3.3% 2.3 lakh acres
- 10 Kachchh Gujarat 2.2% 1.6 lakh acres
Guar Seed (Cluster Bean) yield
- 1.0–2.5 quintals an acre
- 2.7–3.0 quintals an acre
- 3.1–3.4 quintals an acre
- 3.5–4.0 quintals an acre
- 4.2–6.8 quintals an acre
1 Numbers match the list: the districts with the most area.
Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2012-13 to 2022-23.
Where yields are highest
Districts growing it on at least 100 ha, against the average across India. The line runs from India's average to each district.
- Mansa Punjab 5.1 quintals an acre 2.2× India
- Morbi Gujarat 5.0 quintals an acre 2.1× India
- Sabar Kantha Gujarat 4.8 quintals an acre 2.1× India
- Jaipur Rajasthan 4.7 quintals an acre 2.0× India
- Banas Kantha Gujarat 4.6 quintals an acre 2.0× India
- Gandhinagar Gujarat 4.5 quintals an acre 1.9× India
- Dausa Rajasthan 4.5 quintals an acre 1.9× India
- Rajsamand Rajasthan 4.4 quintals an acre 1.9× India
- Sri Muktsar Sahib Punjab 4.3 quintals an acre 1.8× India
- Arvalli Gujarat 4.2 quintals an acre 1.8× India
Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2012-13 to 2022-23.
Across India over the years
Yield across India, quintals an acre
Area sown across India, acres
Years run July to June. Only years in which most of the usual districts reported are shown.
Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2012-13 to 2022-23.
Soil and yield
How district soil tests line up with this crop's yields across India.
Guar Seed (Cluster Bean) yields tend to be higher in districts with
- More soil medium in organic carbon weak 83 districts
Guar Seed (Cluster Bean) yields tend to be lower in districts with
- More soil short of zinc moderate 82 districts
- More soil short of iron weak 82 districts
- More soil medium in potassium weak 79 districts
- More soil low in organic carbon weak 83 districts
A pattern is not proof that soil causes the difference.
Source: Soil Health Card – soil nutrient analysis (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).