Moth Bean

Water

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

Needs about 280 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 80 mm it can use in a normal year, and 50 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 29 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 29 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 27 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Moth Bean: 9 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 zinc.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

Likes pH 6.5–8.2.

Money

Yield: about 2.0 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).

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 (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).

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.