Tur (Arhar)
Sow in June, harvest around December
This season's sowing time (June–July) is over.
Grown on 14 acres here. Priced from mandis across India.
₹5,000–₹7,000
per acre a season, before costs
Likely a loss at typical costs: ₹12,000–₹14,000 an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 10/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.
Needs about 510 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 580 mm it can use in a normal year, and 510 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 18–38 °C on average, and survives 10–45 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 35 °C / 24 °C
- Jul 30 °C / 23 °C
- Aug 29 °C / 23 °C
- Sep 29 °C / 21 °C
- Oct 27 °C / 17 °C
- Nov 23 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Tur (Arhar): 10 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen, organic carbon, sulphur and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 6.0–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 0.9 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).
Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025–January 2026): about ₹6,500 a quintal across India's mandis.
This week: about ₹9,500 a quintal, the middle of 114 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would lose about ₹11,000 a season at typical costs.
Minimum support price: ₹8,450 a quintal (2026-27), if you sell to government procurement.
- ₹5,740 2021
- ₹5,750 2022
- ₹8,120 2023
- ₹9,380 2024
- ₹6,260 2025
Prices are usually best in November.
Typical costs are about ₹19,000 an acre (seed, fertiliser, labour and hired machines, from the government's cost survey). They are spent whatever the harvest.