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?

Vadodara Gujarat
Water
Season

Won't work: too dry without irrigation

Lablab Bean (Sem)

JJASONDJFMAM

Sow in October, harvest around March

Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.

No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Sold at 4 mandis in your district.

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 9/10
Why, and how to make it work

Water

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

Needs about 580 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 0 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 35 °C / 22 °C
  • Nov 34 °C / 17 °C
  • Dec 31 °C / 13 °C
  • Jan 29 °C / 12 °C
  • Feb 33 °C / 15 °C
  • Mar 36 °C / 19 °C

Soil

Soil for Lablab Bean (Sem): 9 out of 10 (good).

  • The pH here suits it.
  • Low nitrogen matters less: it makes its own.
  • Most fields here are short of boron.

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 (March–April 2026): about ₹2,063 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Average mandi price each year (₹ a quintal):
  1. ₹3,050 2021
  2. ₹4,540 2022
  3. ₹3,210 2023
  4. ₹3,750 2024
  5. ₹4,500 2025

Prices are usually best in July.

How to make it work

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

    Mix 4 kg of borax per acre into the soil 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 Vadodara 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.