Peas & Beans (Dry)
Sow in June, harvest around October
This season's sowing time (June–July) is over.
Grown on 463 acres here. Priced from mandis across India.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 10/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 360 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 140 mm it can use in a normal year, and 80 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 10–24 °C on average, and survives 4–30 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 23 °C / 12 °C
- Jul 22 °C / 13 °C
- Aug 22 °C / 12 °C
- Sep 20 °C / 10 °C
Soil
Soil for Peas & Beans (Dry): 10 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: sulphur and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
- Low nitrogen matters less: it makes its own.
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).
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 this season's harvest so far (October–November 2026): about ₹4,915 a quintal across India's mandis.
This week: about ₹3,910 a quintal, the middle of 7 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹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 ₹16,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.
How to make it work
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 97%