Moth Bean

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 280 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 340 mm it can use in a normal year, and 230 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 24–32 °C on average, and survives 13–45 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 39 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 27 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Moth Bean: 8 out of 10 (good).

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

Likes pH 6.5–8.2.

Money

Yield: about 1.1 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (August–September 2026): about ₹8,600 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹9,750 a quintal, the middle of 3 mandis across India (latest 12 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹7,000 a season after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in October.

Typical costs are about ₹4,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.