Lablab Bean (Sem)

Water

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

Needs about 660 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 250 mm it can use in a normal year, and 160 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 35 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 35 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 12 °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 and boron.

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• 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 (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.