Tur (Arhar)
Sow in October, harvest around April
Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.
Grown on 766 acres here. Priced from mandis across India.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Not known: No soil data
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 690 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 10 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 mm from the monsoon at sowing.
Temperature
Grows best at 18–38 °C on average, and survives 10–45 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Oct 34 °C / 23 °C
- Nov 34 °C / 19 °C
- Dec 32 °C / 16 °C
- Jan 31 °C / 15 °C
- Feb 33 °C / 16 °C
- Mar 36 °C / 20 °C
- Apr 37 °C / 24 °C
Soil
Likes pH 6.0–7.5. We have no pH figures for this place.
Money
Yield: about 3.7 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).
Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (April–May 2026): about ₹7,074 a quintal across India's mandis.
This week: about ₹9,531 a quintal, the middle of 101 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).
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.
How to make it work
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 47%
- Urea 47%