Peas & Beans (Dry)

Water

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

Needs about 540 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 170 mm it can use in a normal year (90 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 10 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 11 °C / 1 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 6 °C / -4 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 3 °C / -6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 5 °C / -4 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 9 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 16 °C / 5 °C
• May 20 °C / 8 °C
• Jun 23 °C / 12 °C
• Jul 22 °C / 13 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

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.

Money

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 last season's harvest (July–August 2026): about ₹3,793 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹3,910 a quintal, the middle of 7 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

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.