Peas & Beans (Dry)

Water

Rain falls about 7 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 520 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 220 mm it can use in a normal year, and 130 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):

• Jun 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 36 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 35 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)

Days in June get hotter than it likes. Time sowing so it flowers before then.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Low nitrogen matters less: it makes its own.
• Many fields here are short of phosphorus, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of potassium.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 11 quintals an acre here (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 this season's harvest so far (October–November 2026): about ₹4,915 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 ₹16,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.