Moong (Green Gram)
Sow in November, harvest around January
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. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹7,000–₹11,000
per acre a season, before costs
Likely a loss at typical costs: ₹3,000–₹7,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 1 irrigation short
- Needs care: Cool in December
- Suits: Soil 10/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 1 irrigation (5 cm) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 200 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 150 mm from the monsoon at sowing.
Temperature
Grows best at 21–36 °C on average, and survives 8–40 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Nov 32 °C / 16 °C
- Dec 29 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 27 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Moong (Green Gram): 10 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 6.2–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 1.8 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).
On rain alone it gets about 76% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 76% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹6,290 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹8,000 a quintal, the middle of 40 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would lose about ₹3,000 a season at typical costs.
Minimum support price: ₹8,780 a quintal (2026-27), if you sell to government procurement.
- ₹6,070 2021
- ₹5,770 2022
- ₹7,150 2023
- ₹7,410 2024
- ₹6,450 2025
Prices are usually best in October.
Typical costs are about ₹14,000 an acre (seed, fertiliser, labour and hired machines, from the government's cost survey). They are spent whatever the harvest.
How to make it work
The better districts with similar soil, rain and warmth get 3.7 quintals an acre. That's a realistic target.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 47%
- Urea 35%