Lablab Bean (Sem)

Water

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

Needs about 670 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 220 mm it can use in a normal year, and 130 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 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 36 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 35 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 35 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 12 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Lablab Bean (Sem): 7 out of 10 (okay).

• The pH here suits it.
• Low nitrogen matters less: it makes its own.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• 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 (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.