Lablab Bean (Sem)

A monsoon crop. Sow in Jun–Jul, harvest in Nov–Dec.

Check it on your land
Season
Kharif
JJASONDJFMAM

Sowing Growing Harvest

Also grown in rabi.
Ready in
150 days
about 5 months
Grows best at
18–32 °C
0 °C survives 3–38 °C 40 °C

When to sow and harvest

Kharif
Rabi
Today: kharif harvest
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?

Gautam Buddha Nagar Uttar Pradesh
Water
Season

Won't work: too dry without irrigation

Lablab Bean (Sem)

JJASONDJFMAM

Sow in June, harvest around November

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

No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across your state.

Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on

  • Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
  • Suits: Ideal temperatures
  • Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 620 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 240 mm it can use in a normal year, and 130 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 18–32 °C on average, and survives 3–38 °C.

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

  • Jun 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
  • Jul 35 °C / 27 °C
  • Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
  • Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
  • Oct 33 °C / 19 °C
  • Nov 29 °C / 12 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Lablab Bean (Sem): 8 out of 10 (good).

  • 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 sulphur.

Likes pH 5.0–7.5.

How the soil score works

Money

No yield records for this crop yet.

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 (November–December 2025): about ₹3,725 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹6,150 a quintal, the middle of 40 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in November.

How to make it work

  • 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.

  • Short of sulphur Your soil is likely short of sulphur.

    Use single super phosphate instead of DAP, or add about 100 kg of gypsum per acre before sowing.

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

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What it needs

Temperature

18–32 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 3–38 °C.

Water

The check above works out its water need on your land.

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 4.5 to 8.

Soil

  • No salty soil
  • Ordinary farm soil is fine
  • N Makes its own nitrogen
  • K Needs plenty of potassium
How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); 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

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra for the dose.

Watch out for

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to watch for.

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
June, ₹7,600 a quintal
Lowest
January, ₹3,377 a quintal
₹3,377
₹7,600
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 Gautam Buddha Nagar Today's price across India

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

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.

No recent district figures for this crop.