Peas & Beans (Dry)
Sow in May, harvest around September
This season's sowing time (April–May) is over.
Grown on 2,456 acres here. Priced from mandis across India.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Needs care: Risky: 5 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 10/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 5 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 400 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 190 mm it can use in a normal year, and 120 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):
- May 18 °C / 7 °C
- Jun 22 °C / 10 °C
- Jul 22 °C / 12 °C
- Aug 21 °C / 11 °C
Soil
Soil for Peas & Beans (Dry): 10 out of 10 (good).
- 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 last season's harvest (September–October 2026): about ₹3,885 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 ₹17,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.