Moth Bean

Water

Rain falls about 1 irrigation (5 cm) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 280 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 250 mm it can use in a normal year, and 180 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):

• Jul 35 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 24 °C

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.
• 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 potassium.

Likes pH 6.5–8.2.

Money

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

On rain alone it gets about 88% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 88% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (September–October 2026): about ₹9,525 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 ₹6,000 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.