Moth Bean

Water

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

Needs about 340 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 80 mm it can use in a normal year, and 40 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 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 37 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 35 °C / 26 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of sulphur, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of potassium.
• Most fields here are short of manganese.

Likes pH 6.5–8.2.

Money

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

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 (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).

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.