Moong (Green Gram)
Sow in October, harvest around December
Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.
Grown on 2.3 acres here. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹35,000–₹52,000
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹21,000–₹38,000 an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough, even in a dry year.
Needs about 210 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 140 mm it can use in a normal year (100 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 mm from the monsoon at sowing.
Temperature
Grows best at 21–36 °C on average, and survives 8–40 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Oct 31 °C / 24 °C
- Nov 31 °C / 24 °C
- Dec 32 °C / 22 °C
Soil
Soil for Moong (Green Gram): 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of sulphur, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 6.2–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 4.0 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).
Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025–January 2026): about ₹10,975 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹8,050 a quintal, the middle of 152 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹18,000 a season after typical costs.
Minimum support price: ₹8,780 a quintal (2026-27), if you sell to government procurement.
- ₹9,900 2021
- ₹9,760 2022
- ₹10,550 2023
- ₹11,550 2024
- ₹10,900 2025
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.