Lablab Bean (Sem)

Water

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

Needs about 520 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 0 mm it can use in a normal year, and 0 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):

• Oct 36 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 24 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 28 °C / 11 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 17 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Lablab Bean (Sem): 6 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: nitrogen, sulphur and boron.

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.
• 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 (March–April 2026): about ₹4,243 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in June.