Guar Seed (Cluster Bean)

A monsoon crop. Sow in Jun–Jul, harvest in Sep–Oct.

Check it on your land
Season
Kharif
JJASONDJFMAM
100% of its area.
Ready in
100 days
about 3½ months
Water
400–470 mm
over its season
Temperature
25–35 °C
0° survives 10–45 °C 40°

When to sow and harvest

Kharif 100% of its area
Today
J J A S O N D J F M A M
Sow Growing Harvest
The year starts in June, with the monsoon. Your district can shift a few weeks.

Will it grow on your land?

Water
Season

Pick your place and water to see:

  • Whether Guar Seed (Cluster Bean) suits your land Good fit, possible or won't work, with the reasons.
  • What it could earn an acre From yields near you and mandi prices.
  • Water and fertiliser it needs Irrigations for your water, and bags for one acre.

What it needs

Temperature

25–35 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 10–45 °C. Frost hurts it.

Water

400–470 mm over its season

Rain and irrigation together, worked out where most of it grows:

Bikaner Jaisalmer Hanumangarh Barmer Ganganagar

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes alkaline soil. Grows from pH 5.5 to 8.5.

Soil

  • Takes a little salt
  • Ordinary farm soil is fine
  • N Makes its own nitrogen
How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°).

Fertiliser for one acre

Draft: check with your KVK
Urea nitrogen
4 kg half a bag of 45 kg
DAP phosphate
35 kg half a bag of 50 kg

Give the DAP and MOP at sowing, and the urea in two or three doses. If your soil card says a nutrient is low, add about a quarter more of it.

Watch out for

Draft: check with your KVK
  • Bacterial blight
    Disease

    Look for

    Water-soaked spots on the leaves and black streaks on the stems.

    What to do first

    Use treated seed and a resistant variety.

  • Alternaria leaf spot
    Disease

    Look for

    Brown round spots on the leaves.

    What to do first

    Spray mancozeb when spots appear. Follow the label or your KVK for the dose.

  • Root rot
    Disease

    Look for

    Plants dry in patches; roots rot.

    What to do first

    Rotate crops and treat seed with Trichoderma.

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
January, ₹5,063
Lowest
August, ₹4,650
₹5,063
₹4,650
J F M A M J J A S O N D

Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis.

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India
31,04,722 ha
2022-23
Average yield
0.5 t/ha
2022-23
Most area
Bikaner
Rajasthan
Best yield
Faridkot
1.7 t/ha

Districts with the most area (recent figures)

The map colours each district by yield, for districts growing it on at least 100 ha.

  1. Bikaner, Rajasthan 6,39,388 ha
  2. Jaisalmer, Rajasthan 4,85,273 ha
  3. Hanumangarh, Rajasthan 3,59,736 ha
  4. Barmer, Rajasthan 2,63,777 ha
  5. Ganganagar, Rajasthan 2,10,426 ha
  6. Churu, Rajasthan 1,87,927 ha
  7. Phalodi, Rajasthan 1,48,111 ha
  8. Jodhpur, Rajasthan 1,31,163 ha
  9. Nagaur, Rajasthan 1,15,781 ha
  10. Sikar, Rajasthan 94,877 ha

Guar Seed (Cluster Bean) yield

  1. 0.3–0.6 t/ha
  2. 0.6–0.7 t/ha
  3. 0.7–0.9 t/ha
  4. 0.9–1.0 t/ha
  5. 1.1–1.7 t/ha
No data

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2012-13 to 2022-23.

Where yields are highest

  1. Faridkot, Punjab 1.7 t/ha
  2. Karauli, Rajasthan 1.5 t/ha
  3. Alwar, Rajasthan 1.3 t/ha
  4. Mansa, Punjab 1.3 t/ha
  5. Morbi, Gujarat 1.2 t/ha
  6. Bharatpur, Rajasthan 1.2 t/ha
  7. Sabar Kantha, Gujarat 1.2 t/ha
  8. Jaipur, Rajasthan 1.2 t/ha
  9. Banas Kantha, Gujarat 1.1 t/ha
  10. Gandhinagar, Gujarat 1.1 t/ha

Only districts growing it on at least 100 ha.

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2012-13 to 2022-23.

Across India over the years

Yield (t/ha)

0.4 0.5 0.6
2012-13 2022-23
Latest 0.5 t/ha in 2022-23

Area (ha)

0.0 2.8M 5.6M
2012-13 2022-23
Latest 31,04,722 ha in 2022-23

Only years in which most of the usual districts reported are shown.

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2012-13 to 2022-23.

Soil and yield

How district soil tests line up with this crop's yields across India.

Guar Seed (Cluster Bean) yields tend to be higher in districts with

  • More soil low in potassium weak 82 districts
  • More soil medium in organic carbon weak 83 districts
  • More soil that is neutral weak 83 districts

Guar Seed (Cluster Bean) yields tend to be lower in districts with

  • More soil short of zinc weak 82 districts
  • More soil short of iron weak 82 districts
  • More soil that is alkaline weak 83 districts

A pattern is not proof that soil causes the difference.

Source: Soil Health Card – soil nutrient analysis (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).