Lablab Bean (Sem)

Water

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

Needs about 480 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 10 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 160 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):

• Oct 32 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 27 °C / 12 °C
• Mar 33 °C / 16 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• 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 (March–April 2026): about ₹4,243 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in June.