Urad (Black Gram)
Sow in October, harvest around January
Still sowing time: sow by the end of December.
No recent figures for your district. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹48,000–₹72,000
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹34,000–₹58,000 an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Doesn't suit: Too cold here in this season
- Not known: No soil data
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 170 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 40 mm it can use in a normal year (20 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 140 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 25 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 23 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 20 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
Soil
Likes pH 5.5–6.5. We have no pH figures for this place.
Money
Yield: about 4.4 quintals an acre here (older figures, 2018-19).
Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹13,750 a quintal across mandis in your state.
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 ₹20,000 a season after typical costs.
Minimum support price: ₹8,200 a quintal (2026-27), if you sell to government procurement.
Prices are usually best in June.
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.