Suitable target environment
- The optimum temperature requirement for Black gram is 25-35 0Cยท
- If the moisture content of the soil is expected to be at saturation and above, black gram should be preferred as a paira crop.
- Under excess moisture situation, growing of green gram and black gram is not a good choice,
- Grown in Hot and humid climate during the winter and rainy seasons in Odisha
- Grown on a variety of well drained soils from sandy to heavy to cotton soils.