Tur (Arhar)

A monsoon crop. Sow in Jun–Jul, harvest in Dec–Jan.

Check it on your land
Season
Kharif
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95% of its area.
Ready in
180 days
about 6 months
Water
660–680 mm
over its season
Temperature
18–38 °C
0° survives 10–45 °C 40°

When to sow and harvest

Kharif 95% of its area
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Sow Growing Harvest
The year starts in June, with the monsoon. Your district can shift a few weeks.

Will it grow on your land?

Water
Season

Pick your place and water to see:

  • Whether Tur (Arhar) suits your land Good fit, possible or won't work, with the reasons.
  • What it could earn an acre From yields near you and mandi prices.
  • Water and fertiliser it needs Irrigations for your water, and bags for one acre.

What it needs

Temperature

18–38 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 10–45 °C. Frost hurts it.

Water

660–680 mm over its season

Rain and irrigation together, worked out where most of it grows:

Kalaburagi Vijayapura Raichur Yavatmal Bidar

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 4.5 to 8.4.

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°).

Fertiliser for one acre

Draft: check with your KVK
Urea nitrogen
5 kg half a bag of 45 kg
DAP phosphate
44 kg 1 bag of 50 kg
MOP potash
17 kg half a bag of 50 kg

Sulphur 20 kg/ha

Give the DAP and MOP at sowing, and the urea in two or three doses. If your soil card says a nutrient is low, add about a quarter more of it.

Watch out for

Draft: check with your KVK
  • Pod borer
    Pest

    Look for

    Holes in pods with green caterpillars half inside.

    What to do first

    Use bird perches and pheromone traps; spray neem or NPV early, a chemical spray only when caterpillars are many. Follow the label or your KVK for the dose.

  • Pod fly
    Pest

    Look for

    Pods look fine outside but the grains inside are eaten; tiny holes in the pod wall.

    What to do first

    Spray at pod formation as your KVK advises; grow a tolerant variety.

  • Wilt
    Disease

    Look for

    Plants wilt and dry at flowering; brown streaks inside the stem.

    What to do first

    Grow a resistant variety, rotate with sorghum and treat seed with Trichoderma.

  • Sterility mosaic
    Disease

    Look for

    Light green mottled leaves; bushy plants with no flowers.

    What to do first

    Grow a resistant variety and pull out sick plants; it is spread by mites.

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
March, ₹6,858
Lowest
June, ₹5,998
₹6,858
₹5,998
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Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis.

Government minimum support price (MSP): ₹8,450 a quintal for 2026-27.

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India
43,17,847 ha
2024-25
Average yield
0.8 t/ha
2024-25
Most area
Kalaburagi
Karnataka
Best yield
Junagadh
2.2 t/ha

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.

41% of India's tur (arhar) area is in these 10 districts

  1. 1 Kalaburagi Karnataka 12% 5,72,580 ha
  2. 2 Vijayapura Karnataka 10% 4,64,047 ha
  3. 3 Raichur Karnataka 3.1% 1,42,353 ha
  4. 4 Yavatmal Maharashtra 2.8% 1,26,304 ha
  5. 5 Bidar Karnataka 2.8% 1,26,109 ha
  6. 6 Amravati Maharashtra 2.5% 1,14,594 ha
  7. 7 Buldhana Maharashtra 1.9% 89,201 ha
  8. 8 Latur Maharashtra 1.9% 86,606 ha
  9. 9 Yadgir Karnataka 1.8% 80,245 ha
  10. 10 Nanded Maharashtra 1.6% 72,438 ha

Tur (Arhar) yield

  1. 0.1–0.6 t/ha
  2. 0.6–0.8 t/ha
  3. 0.8–1.0 t/ha
  4. 1.0–1.2 t/ha
  5. 1.2–2.2 t/ha
No data

1 Numbers match the list: the districts with the most area.

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2000-01 to 2024-25.

Where yields are highest

Districts growing it on at least 100 ha, against the average across India. The line runs from India's average to each district.

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2000-01 to 2024-25.

Across India over the years

Yield (t/ha)

0.0 0.6 1.1
2000-01 2024-25
Latest 0.8 t/ha in 2024-25

Area (ha)

3.1M 4.1M 5.0M
2000-01 2024-25
Latest 43,17,847 ha in 2024-25

Only years in which most of the usual districts reported are shown.

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2000-01 to 2024-25.

Soil and yield

How district soil tests line up with this crop's yields across India.

Tur (Arhar) yields tend to be lower in districts with

  • More soil that is acidic weak 444 districts

A pattern is not proof that soil causes the difference.

Source: Soil Health Card – soil nutrient analysis (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).