Urad (Black Gram)
Sow in October, harvest around January
Still sowing time: sow by the end of December.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹28,000–₹42,000
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹14,000–₹28,000 an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Needs care: Cool in November
- 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 180 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 50 mm it can use in a normal year (30 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 160 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 28 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 25 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Likes pH 5.5–6.5. We have no pH figures for this place.
Money
Yield: about 2.6 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (your district's own figure looked wrong).
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 ₹6,000 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.