Peas & Beans (Dry)

A winter crop. Sow in Oct–Nov, harvest in Feb–Mar.

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Season
Rabi
JJASONDJFMAM

Sowing Growing Harvest

97% of its area.
Ready in
110 days
about 3½ months
Water
310–330 mm
of water over its season (rain plus irrigation)
Grows best at
10–24 °C
0 °C survives 4–30 °C 40 °C

When to sow and harvest

Rabi 97% of its area
Today: rabi sowing time
J J A S O N D J F M A M
Sow Growing Harvest
The year starts in June, with the monsoon. Your district can shift a few weeks.

Sowing Growing Harvest

Will it grow on your land?

Ferozepur Punjab
Water
Season

Won't work: too dry without irrigation

Peas & Beans (Dry)

JJASONDJFMAM

Sow in November, harvest around March

Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.

Grown on 309 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 8/10
Why, and how to make it work

Water

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

Needs about 240 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 0 mm it can use in a normal year, and 0 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 28 °C / 11 °C
  • Dec 21 °C / 7 °C
  • Jan 18 °C / 6 °C
  • Feb 22 °C / 9 °C

Soil

Soil for Peas & Beans (Dry): 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

  • The pH here suits it.
  • Many fields here are short of phosphorus, which it needs a lot.
  • Most fields here are short of manganese.
  • Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

How the soil score works

Money

Yield: about 4.9 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).

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 (March–April 2026): about ₹4,018 a quintal across India's mandis.

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

Average mandi price each year (₹ a quintal):
  1. ₹5,590 2021
  2. ₹4,810 2022
  3. ₹4,930 2023
  4. ₹5,190 2024
  5. ₹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

The better districts with similar soil, rain and warmth get 33 quintals an acre. That's a realistic target.

  • Short of manganese Your soil is likely short of manganese.

    Spray manganese sulphate, 5 g per litre of water, on the young crop.

    Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.

  • Short of boron Your soil is likely short of boron.

    Mix 4 kg of borax per acre into the soil before sowing.

    Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.

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What it needs

Temperature

10–24 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 4–30 °C.

Water

310–330 mm over its season

Rain and irrigation together, worked out where most of it grows:

Jalaun Jhansi Lalitpur Mahoba Chhatarpur

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 4.5 to 8.3.

Soil

  • No salty soil
  • Ordinary farm soil is fine
  • N Makes its own nitrogen
  • P Needs plenty of phosphorus and sulphur
How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°); TerraClimate 1991–2020 temperature normals (about 4 km), where each district's villages are.

Fertiliser for one acre

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra for the dose.

Watch out for

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to watch for.

What an acre earns

At India's average yield and a recent price, named below. Your land, water and mandi will differ.

Left an acre, a season

₹10,400

Yield India's average
6.1 quintals an acre
× Price harvest price last season (Feb–Mar 2026)
₹4,209 a quintal
= Income
₹25,600
− Costs about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys
−₹15,200
= Left
₹10,400

This week peas & beans (dry) sells at about ₹3,910 a quintal: India's middle price at 7 mandis, latest 13 Nov. At that price an acre would leave about ₹8,600 a season.

A good year or field earns about a fifth more, a poor one a fifth less: ₹20,500 to ₹30,800 income an acre. Costs stay the same either way.

Work it out for your land

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
November, ₹6,000 a quintal
Lowest
July, ₹3,755 a quintal
₹3,755
₹6,000
J F M A M J J A S O N D

Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis: each month's latest price (Dec 2025–Nov 2026).

Latest prices near Ferozepur Today's price across India

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India
19.2 lakh acres
2022-23
Average yield
6.1 quintals an acre (1.5 tonnes a hectare)
recent years, to 2022-23
Most area
Jalaun
Uttar Pradesh
Best yield
East Khasi Hills
15 quintals an acre

Where it grows most

The districts with the most area in recent years. The map colours every district growing it on at least 100 ha by yield; the numbers mark these districts.

47% of India's peas & beans (dry) area is in these 10 districts

  1. 1 Jalaun Uttar Pradesh 12% 1.9 lakh acres
  2. 2 Jhansi Uttar Pradesh 11% 1.8 lakh acres
  3. 3 Lalitpur Uttar Pradesh 9.1% 1.5 lakh acres
  4. 4 Mahoba Uttar Pradesh 4.6% 76,260 acres
  5. 5 Chhatarpur Madhya Pradesh 3.2% 53,714 acres
  6. 6 Hamirpur Uttar Pradesh 1.8% 29,692 acres
  7. 7 Datia Madhya Pradesh 1.5% 25,903 acres
  8. 8 Ranchi Jharkhand 1.3% 22,595 acres
  9. 9 Jaipur Rajasthan 1.3% 22,384 acres
  10. 10 Jabalpur Madhya Pradesh 1.3% 21,181 acres

Peas & Beans (Dry) yield, quintals an acre (average of 2018-19 to 2022-23 in most districts)

  1. 1.2–3.0
  2. 3.1–4.0
  3. 4.1–4.7
  4. 4.8–6.4
  5. 6.5–58
No data

1 Numbers match the list: the districts with the most area.

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2018-19 to 2022-23.

Where yields are highest

Districts growing it on at least 100 ha, against the average across India. The line runs from India's average to each district.

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2018-19 to 2022-23.

Across India over the years

Yield across India, quintals an acre

0 2 q 4 q 6 q 8 q
2009-10 2022-23
Latest 5.6 quintals an acre in 2022-23

Area sown across India, acres

0 10 lakh 20 lakh 30 lakh
2009-10 2022-23
Latest 19.2 lakh acres in 2022-23

Years run July to June. Only years in which most of the usual districts reported are shown.

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2009-10 to 2022-23.

Soil and yield

How district soil tests line up with this crop's yields across India.

Peas & Beans (Dry) yields tend to be lower in districts with

  • More soil that is acidic weak 363 districts

A pattern is not proof that soil causes the difference.

Source: Soil Health Card – soil nutrient analysis (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).