Horse Gram (Kulthi)

Water

Rain falls about 1 irrigation (5 cm) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 320 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 90 mm it can use in a normal year (50 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 190 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 26 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 26 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 16 °C
• Jan 27 °C / 16 °C

Soil

Soil for Horse Gram (Kulthi): 10 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 2.5 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).

On rain alone it gets about 88% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 88% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–March 2026): about ₹3,573 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹4,925 a quintal, the middle of 11 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹5,000 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 September.

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.