Guar Seed (Cluster Bean)

A monsoon crop. Sow in Jun–Jul, harvest in Sep–Oct.

Check it on your land

Season

Kharif

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Sowing Growing Harvest

100% of its area.

Ready in

100 days

about 3½ months

Water

440–480 mm

of water over its season (rain plus irrigation)

Grows best at

25–35 °C

0 °C survives 10–45 °C 40 °C

When to sow and harvest

Kharif 100% of its area

Today

Sow Harvest

JJun JJul AAug SSep OOct NNov DDec JJan FFeb MMar AApr MMay

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?

Mahesana Gujarat

Good fit in Mahesana

Guar Seed (Cluster Bean)

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Sow in June, harvest around September

This season's sowing time (June–July) is over.

Grown on 28,659 acres here. Sold at 3 mandis in your district.

₹19,000–₹28,000

per acre a season, before costs

After typical costs: ₹12,000–₹22,000 an acre a season

Suits: Rain is enough
Suits: Ideal temperatures
Suits: Soil 8/10

Why, and how to make it work

Water

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

Needs about 370 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 450 mm it can use in a normal year, and 320 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 25–35 °C on average, and survives 10–45 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

Jun 38 °C / 27 °C
Jul 33 °C / 25 °C
Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
Sep 33 °C / 24 °C

Soil

Soil for Guar Seed (Cluster Bean): 8 out of 10 (good).

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

Likes pH 7.5–8.0.

How the soil score works

Money

Yield: about 3.8 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (September–October 2026): about ₹6,129 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹7,700 a quintal, the middle of 28 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹23,000 a season after typical costs.

Average mandi price each year (₹ a quintal):

₹3,690 2021
₹5,410 2022
₹5,270 2023
₹4,840 2024
₹4,670 2025

Prices are usually best in October.

Typical costs are about ₹6,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.

How to make it work

Short of zinc Your soil is likely short of zinc.

Mix 10 kg of zinc sulphate per acre into the soil before sowing. One dose lasts two or three seasons.

Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
Short of iron Your soil is likely short of iron.

Spray ferrous sulphate, 5 g per litre of water, when young leaves turn yellow.

Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.

Fertiliser for one acre here

Urea

4 kg

DAP

35 kg

Draft: check with your Krishi Vigyan Kendra.

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What it needs

Temperature

25–35 °C

best 25–35° 10° 45°

0 °C40 °C

Survives 10–45 °C. Frost hurts it.

Water

440–480 mm over its season

Rain and irrigation together, worked out where most of it grows:

Bikaner Jaisalmer Hanumangarh Barmer Ganganagar

Soil pH

best 7.5–8

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

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

How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); ICAR-CAZRI; 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 Krishi Vigyan Kendra

For most fields

Urea nitrogen

4 kg less than a quarter of a 45 kg bag

DAP phosphate

35 kg about ¾ of a 50 kg bag

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 Krishi Vigyan Kendra

Bacterial blight

Disease

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.
Alternaria leaf spot

Disease

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.
Root rot

Disease

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 a recent price, named below. Your land, water and mandi will differ.

Left an acre, a season

₹9,000

Yield India's average: 2.3 quintals an acre
× Price harvest price last season (Sep–Oct 2026): ₹6,556 a quintal
= Income: ₹15,300
− Costs about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys: −₹6,300
= Left: ₹9,000

This week guar seed (cluster bean) sells at about ₹7,700 a quintal: India's middle price at 28 mandis, latest 13 Nov. At that price an acre would leave about ₹11,700 a season.

A good year or field earns about a fifth more, a poor one a fifth less: ₹12,300 to ₹18,400 income an acre. Costs stay the same either way.

Work it out for your land

Mandi price, month by month

Best month

November, ₹7,500 a quintal

Lowest

December, ₹4,638 a quintal

₹7,500

₹4,638

JJan FFeb MMar AApr MMay JJun JJul AAug SSep OOct NNov DDec

Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis: each month's latest price (Dec 2025–Nov 2026).

Latest prices near Mahesana Today's price across India

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: 2.3 quintals an acre (0.6 tonnes a hectare); recent years, to 2024-25
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.

Guar Seed (Cluster Bean) yield, quintals an acre (average of 2018-19 to 2022-23 in most districts)

1.0–2.5
2.7–3.0
3.1–3.4
3.5–4.0
4.2–6.8

No data

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). 2018-19 to 2024-25.

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.

Across India over the years

Yield across India, quintals an acre

0 1 q 2 q 3 q

2004-05 2022-23

Latest 2.2 quintals an acre in 2022-23

Area sown across India, acres

0 50 lakh 1 crore 1.5 crore

2004-05 2022-23

Latest 76.7 lakh acres in 2022-23

Years run July to June. Only years in which most of the usual districts reported are shown.

Soil and yield

How district soil tests line up with this crop's yields across India.

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

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).