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
- 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, even in a dry year.
Needs about 150 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 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 23 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 18 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
Nights in December can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.
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.