Peas & Beans (Dry)

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 440 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 620 mm it can use in a normal year, and 500 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

Grows best at 10–24 °C on average, and survives 4–30 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 36 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 31 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 31 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are 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): 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

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

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).

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). At that price an acre would leave about ₹7,000 a season after typical costs.

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.