Peas & Beans (Dry)

Water

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

Needs about 300 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 0 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 100 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):

• Oct 33 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 29 °C / 13 °C
• Dec 24 °C / 9 °C
• Jan 22 °C / 8 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Peas & Beans (Dry): 9 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Low nitrogen matters less: it makes its own.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 5.6 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 (February–March 2026): about ₹4,998 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹3,500 a quintal, the middle of 5 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in February.

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.