Tur (Arhar)
Sow in June, harvest around December
This season's sowing time (June–July) is over.
Grown on 487 acres here. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹29,000–₹44,000
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹10,000–₹24,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 2 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 10/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 2 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 580 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 520 mm it can use in a normal year, and 400 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 39 °C / 28 °C
- Jul 34 °C / 27 °C
- Aug 33 °C / 27 °C
- Sep 32 °C / 26 °C
- Oct 32 °C / 22 °C
- Nov 29 °C / 15 °C
- Dec 25 °C / 11 °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.
- The pH here suits it.
- Most fields here are short of boron.
Likes pH 6.0–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 6.7 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).
On rain alone it gets about 90% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 90% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025–January 2026): about ₹6,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹9,500 a quintal, the middle of 114 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹38,000 a season after typical costs.
Minimum support price: ₹8,450 a quintal (2026-27), if you sell to government procurement.
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.
How to make it work
The better districts with similar soil, rain and warmth get 7.0 quintals an acre. That's a realistic target.
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Short of boron Your soil is likely short of boron.
Mix 4 kg of borax per acre into the soil before sowing.
Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 97%
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 48%