Urad (Black Gram)
Sow in October, harvest around January
Still sowing time: sow by the end of December.
Grown on 138 acres here. Priced from mandis across India.
₹19,000–₹28,000
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹5,000–₹14,000 an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Doesn't suit: Too cold here in this season
- Not known: No soil score
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough, even in a dry year.
Needs about 150 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 60 mm it can use in a normal year (40 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 mm from the monsoon at sowing.
Temperature
Grows best at 22–35 °C on average, and survives 8–40 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Oct 27 °C / 18 °C
- Nov 23 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
Soil
No soil score here: the soil tests don't say enough about nitrogen, phosphorus or potassium.
Likes pH 5.5–6.5.
Money
Yield: about 3.7 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).
Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹6,320 a quintal across India's mandis.
This week: about ₹7,728 a quintal, the middle of 184 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹15,000 a season after typical costs.
Minimum support price: ₹8,200 a quintal (2026-27), if you sell to government procurement.
- ₹5,930 2021
- ₹5,700 2022
- ₹7,310 2023
- ₹8,230 2024
- ₹6,290 2025
Prices are usually best in October.
Typical costs are about ₹14,000 an acre (seed, fertiliser, labour and hired machines, from the government's cost survey). They are spent whatever the harvest.