Peas & Beans (Dry)
Sow in October, harvest around February
Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.
No recent figures for your district. Priced from mandis across India.
₹12,000–₹18,000
per acre a season, before costs
At typical costs, from a loss of ₹3,000 to a profit of ₹3,000 an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Not known: No soil data
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.
Needs about 230 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 40 mm it can use in a normal year (30 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 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 23 °C / 15 °C
- Nov 21 °C / 10 °C
- Dec 18 °C / 6 °C
- Jan 17 °C / 5 °C
Soil
Likes pH 5.5–7.0. We have no pH figures for this place.
Money
Yield: about 3.5 quintals an acre here (older figures, 2018-19).
Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–March 2026): about ₹4,209 a quintal across India's mandis.
This week: about ₹3,910 a quintal, the middle of 7 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would lose about ₹1,000 a season at typical costs.
- ₹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 ₹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.
How to make it work
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 96%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 76%
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 45%
- Triple Super Phosphate (TSP) 0%