Moong (Green Gram)

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

Check it on your land
Season
Kharif
JJASONDJFMAM
61% of its area. Also grown in summer, rabi.
Ready in
70 days
about 2½ months
Water
260–300 mm
over its season
Temperature
21–36 °C
0° survives 8–40 °C 40°

When to sow and harvest

Kharif 61% of its area
Summer 29% of its area
Rabi 10% of its area
Today: rabi sowing time
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 Moong (Green Gram) 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

21–36 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 8–40 °C.

Water

260–300 mm over its season

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

Nagaur Churu Jodhpur Pali Didwana-Kuchaman

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes slightly acidic soil. Grows from pH 4.3 to 8.3.

Soil

  • Takes a little salt
  • Ordinary farm soil is fine
  • N Makes its own nitrogen
  • P Needs plenty of phosphorus and sulphur
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
MOP potash
13 kg half a bag of 50 kg

Sulphur 20 kg/ha

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
  • Yellow mosaic
    Disease

    Look for

    Yellow patches on the leaves and short plants; spread by whitefly.

    What to do first

    Grow a resistant variety, pull out sick plants early and control whitefly.

  • Powdery mildew
    Disease

    Look for

    White powder on the leaves.

    What to do first

    Spray wettable sulphur when it appears. Follow the label or your KVK for the dose.

  • Pod borer
    Pest

    Look for

    Holes in pods with caterpillars feeding inside.

    What to do first

    Use pheromone traps and bird perches; spray when caterpillars are many. Follow the label or your KVK for the dose.

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
April, ₹7,070
Lowest
October, ₹6,350
₹7,070
₹6,350
J F M A M J J A S O N D

Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis.

Government minimum support price (MSP): ₹8,780 a quintal for 2026-27.

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

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India
57,69,232 ha
2024-25
Average yield
0.7 t/ha
2024-25
Most area
Nagaur
Rajasthan
Best yield
Purba Medinipur
1.8 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. Nagaur, Rajasthan 6,08,219 ha
  2. Churu, Rajasthan 3,48,925 ha
  3. Jodhpur, Rajasthan 2,82,021 ha
  4. Pali, Rajasthan 2,37,853 ha
  5. Narmadapuram, Madhya Pradesh 2,25,933 ha
  6. Didwana-Kuchaman, Rajasthan 1,65,764 ha
  7. Ganganagar, Rajasthan 1,42,273 ha
  8. Narsimhapur, Madhya Pradesh 1,26,406 ha
  9. Raisen, Madhya Pradesh 1,20,871 ha
  10. Ajmer, Rajasthan 1,17,162 ha

Moong (Green Gram) yield

  1. 0.1–0.4 t/ha
  2. 0.4–0.6 t/ha
  3. 0.6–0.8 t/ha
  4. 0.8–0.9 t/ha
  5. 0.9–1.8 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). 2016-17 to 2024-25.

Where yields are highest

  1. Purba Medinipur, West Bengal 1.8 t/ha
  2. Gir Somnath, Gujarat 1.5 t/ha
  3. Pratapgarh, Rajasthan 1.5 t/ha
  4. Narsimhapur, Madhya Pradesh 1.5 t/ha
  5. Malda, West Bengal 1.4 t/ha
  6. Narmadapuram, Madhya Pradesh 1.4 t/ha
  7. Harda, Madhya Pradesh 1.4 t/ha
  8. Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh 1.4 t/ha
  9. Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh 1.4 t/ha
  10. Eluru, Andhra Pradesh 1.4 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). 2016-17 to 2024-25.

Across India over the years

Yield (t/ha)

0.0 0.4 0.7
2016-17 2024-25
Latest 0.7 t/ha in 2024-25

Area (ha)

4.6M 5.2M 5.8M
2016-17 2024-25
Latest 57,69,232 ha in 2024-25

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). 2016-17 to 2024-25.

Soil and yield

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

Moong (Green Gram) yields tend to be higher in districts with

  • More soil medium in nitrogen weak 471 districts
  • More soil high in organic carbon weak 486 districts

Moong (Green Gram) yields tend to be lower in districts with

  • More soil low in organic carbon weak 486 districts
  • More soil short of zinc weak 483 districts
  • More soil short of iron weak 481 districts
  • More soil low in nitrogen weak 471 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).