Lablab Bean (Sem)

Water

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

Needs about 460 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 50 mm it can use in a normal year (20 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 80 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 / 18 °C
• Nov 26 °C / 11 °C
• Dec 21 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 27 °C / 14 °C
• Apr 34 °C / 18 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen, manganese and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

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 (April–May 2026): about ₹5,068 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in June.