Peas & Beans (Dry)
Sow in November, harvest around March
Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.
Grown on 7.4 acres here. Priced from mandis across India.
₹33,000–₹49,000
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹18,000–₹34,000 an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 10/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.
Needs about 200 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 50 mm it can use in a normal year (30 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 180 mm from the monsoon at sowing.
Temperature
Grows best at 10–24 °C on average, and survives 4–30 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Nov 23 °C / 11 °C
- Dec 19 °C / 8 °C
- Jan 16 °C / 6 °C
- Feb 20 °C / 10 °C
Soil
Soil for Peas & Beans (Dry): 10 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen, organic carbon, sulphur and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 5.5–7.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 10 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).
Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹4,018 a quintal across India's mandis.
This week: about ₹3,910 a quintal, the middle of 7 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹25,000 a season after typical costs.
- ₹5,590 2021
- ₹4,810 2022
- ₹4,930 2023
- ₹5,190 2024
- ₹4,240 2025
Prices are usually best in November.
Typical costs are about ₹15,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.