Guar Seed (Cluster Bean)
Sow in June, harvest around September
This season's sowing time (June–July) is over.
Grown on 30 acres here. Priced from mandis across your state.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Needs care: Risky: 4 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 4 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 420 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 240 mm it can use in a normal year, and 150 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 41 °C / 28 °C
- Jul 36 °C / 27 °C
- Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 35 °C / 25 °C
Soil
Soil for Guar Seed (Cluster Bean): 8 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: boron.
- 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 7.5–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 2.3 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).
Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (September–October 2026): about ₹6,680 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹7,700 a quintal, the middle of 26 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹3,860 2021
- ₹5,370 2022
- ₹5,110 2023
- ₹4,930 2024
- ₹4,730 2025
Prices are usually best in November.
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
The better districts with similar soil, rain and warmth get 4.0 quintals an acre. That's a realistic target.
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Short of organic carbon Your soil is likely short of organic carbon.
Add 4 tonnes of compost or farmyard manure per acre before sowing, and plough crop leftovers back in instead of burning them.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
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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.