Peas & Beans (Dry)

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 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.

The government's farm census has no figure for Peas & Beans (Dry) alone. About 89% of other pulses (tur, peas, lobia and more) in your district is grown on rain alone.

Temperature

Grows best at 10–24 °C on average, and survives 4–30 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Oct 33 °C / 21 °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): 7 out of 10 (okay).

• The pH here suits it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Low nitrogen matters less: it makes its own.
• Many fields here are short of phosphorus, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of sulphur, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 5.1 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (March 2026): about ₹4,000 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). At that price an acre would leave about ₹3,000 a season after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in September.

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.