Rajmash (Kidney Bean)

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

Check it on your land
Season
Rabi
JJASONDJFMAM

Sowing Growing Harvest

62% of its area. Also grown in kharif.
Ready in
110 days
about 3½ months
Grows best at
16–25 °C
0 °C survives 7–32 °C 40 °C

When to sow and harvest

Rabi 62% of its area
Kharif 38% 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?

Chamba Himachal Pradesh
Water
Season

Won't work: too cold in January

Rajmash (Kidney Bean)

JJASONDJFMAM

Sow in October, harvest around May

Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.

No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop.

No price yet to estimate income

  • Suits: Rain is enough
  • Doesn't suit: Too cold in january
  • Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 410 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 210 mm it can use in a normal year (170 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 170 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 16–25 °C on average, and survives 7–32 °C.

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

  • Oct 23 °C / 12 °C
  • Nov 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
  • Dec 15 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
  • Jan 11 °C / 2 °C (outside its best range)
  • Feb 14 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
  • Mar 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
  • Apr 24 °C / 12 °C

Nights in December can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Soil for Rajmash (Kidney Bean): 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: sulphur, zinc, iron and 3 more.

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

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

How the soil score works

Money

No yield records for this crop yet.

No mandi or support price for this crop yet.

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What it needs

Temperature

16–25 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 7–32 °C. Frost hurts it.

Water

The check above works out its water need on your land.

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 4 to 9.

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.

Mandi price, month by month

No mandi prices for this crop yet.

Where it grows in India

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.

No recent district figures for this crop.