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
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?

Ajmer Rajasthan
Water
Season

Possible in Ajmer, with effort

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 30,166 acres here. Sold at 4 mandis in your district.

₹13,000–₹20,000

per acre a season, before costs

After typical costs: ₹7,000–₹14,000 an acre a season

  • Needs care: Risky: 3 irrigations short
  • Suits: Ideal temperatures
  • Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work

Water

Rain falls about 3 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 400 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 260 mm it can use in a normal year, and 210 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 40 °C / 28 °C
  • Jul 35 °C / 26 °C
  • Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
  • Sep 34 °C / 24 °C

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

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

Likes pH 7.5–8.0.

How the soil score works

Money

Yield: about 2.9 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (September–October 2026): about ₹5,790 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹7,700 a quintal, the middle of 26 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹16,000 a season after typical costs.

Average mandi price each year (₹ a quintal):
  1. ₹3,830 2021
  2. ₹5,220 2022
  3. ₹5,040 2023
  4. ₹4,730 2024
  5. ₹4,500 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 3.9 quintals an acre. That's a realistic target.

  • 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.

    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):

  • Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 60%
  • Urea 40%
  • Triple Super Phosphate (TSP) 34%
  • Single Super Phosphate (SSP) 4%

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
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

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
J F M A M J J A S O N D

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

Latest prices near Ajmer 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.

86% of India's guar seed (cluster bean) area is in these 10 districts

  1. 1 Bikaner Rajasthan 22% 15.8 lakh acres
  2. 2 Jaisalmer Rajasthan 17% 12.0 lakh acres
  3. 3 Hanumangarh Rajasthan 12% 8.9 lakh acres
  4. 4 Ganganagar Rajasthan 7.2% 5.2 lakh acres
  5. 5 Barmer Rajasthan 7.2% 5.2 lakh acres
  6. 6 Churu Rajasthan 6.5% 4.6 lakh acres
  7. 7 Phalodi Rajasthan 5.1% 3.7 lakh acres
  8. 8 Nagaur Rajasthan 3.6% 2.6 lakh acres
  9. 9 Sikar Rajasthan 3.3% 2.3 lakh acres
  10. 10 Kachchh Gujarat 2.2% 1.6 lakh acres

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

  1. 1.0–2.5
  2. 2.7–3.0
  3. 3.1–3.4
  4. 3.5–4.0
  5. 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.

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.

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.

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2004-05 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 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).