Horse Gram (Kulthi)

Water

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

Needs about 210 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 40 mm it can use in a normal year (30 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 20–28 °C on average, and survives 17–35 °C.

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

• Oct 23 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 18 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 17 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)

Nights in December can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Likes pH 5.5–7.0. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 2.5 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–March 2026): about ₹3,830 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹4,963 a quintal, the middle of 12 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹7,000 a season after typical costs.

Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in October.

Typical costs are about ₹6,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.