Peas & Beans (Dry)

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 400 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 390 mm it can use in a normal year, and 310 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):

• Nov 17 °C / 3 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 11 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 8 °C / -2 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 11 °C / 1 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 16 °C / 4 °C
• Apr 21 °C / 9 °C
• May 25 °C / 13 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Peas & Beans (Dry): 9 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Low nitrogen matters less: it makes its own.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 7.2 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (May–June 2026): about ₹4,000 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 leave about ₹14,000 a season after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in November.

Typical costs are about ₹14,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.