Peas & Beans (Dry)

Water

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

Needs about 280 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 30 °C / 11 °C
• Dec 24 °C / 7 °C
• Jan 20 °C / 6 °C
• Feb 25 °C / 9 °C

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 6.0 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (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 (March–April 2026): about ₹7,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.

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

Prices are usually best in August.

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.