Beans (Vegetable)
Sow in October, harvest around January
Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹70,000–₹1.0 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹30,000–₹65,000 an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 8/10
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 250 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 70 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 16–25 °C on average, and survives 7–32 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Oct 31 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 30 °C / 19 °C
- Dec 28 °C / 15 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Beans (Vegetable): 8 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Low nitrogen matters less: it makes its own.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of boron.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 21 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹4,200 a quintal across mandis in your state.
- ₹3,530 2021
- ₹3,800 2022
- ₹4,250 2023
- ₹5,600 2024
- ₹5,430 2025
Prices are usually best in November.
Typical costs are about ₹39,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.
How to make it work
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Short of boron Your soil is likely short of boron.
Mix 4 kg of borax per acre into the soil before sowing.
Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 100%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 100%
- Triple Super Phosphate (TSP) 96%
- Single Super Phosphate (SSP) 31%