Peas & Beans (Dry)

Water

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

Needs about 250 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 0 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 0 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 28 °C / 11 °C
• Dec 23 °C / 7 °C
• Jan 19 °C / 6 °C
• Feb 23 °C / 9 °C

Soil

Soil for Peas & Beans (Dry): 7 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• Many fields here are short of sulphur, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of potassium.
• Most fields here are short of manganese.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 4.0 quintals an acre here (older figures, 2018-19).

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).

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.