Lablab Bean (Sem)

Water

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

Needs about 840 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 280 mm it can use in a normal year (180 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 30 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

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

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

• Nov 11 °C / 1 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 6 °C / -4 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 3 °C / -6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 5 °C / -4 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 9 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 16 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• May 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 22 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 22 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 20 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)

Soil

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

Not in the score: sulphur and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Low nitrogen matters less: it makes its own.

Likes pH 5.0–7.5.

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 (September–October 2026): about ₹6,575 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in June.