Lablab Bean (Sem)

Water

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

Needs about 610 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 230 mm it can use in a normal year, and 150 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 39 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 35 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 11 °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.

• The pH here suits it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

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 (December 2025): about ₹4,650 a quintal across India's mandis.

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

Prices are usually best in June.