Moth Bean

Water

Rain falls about 4 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 300 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 130 mm it can use in a normal year, and 70 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 36 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 35 °C / 25 °C

Soil

Soil for Moth Bean: 7 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: nitrogen, sulphur and boron.

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

Likes pH 6.5–8.2.

Money

Yield: about 1.1 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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.