Mung Beans (Green Gram)
Mung Bean Crop Calendar
Planting, harvest, peak availability and export windows for mung beans across the East African origins.
Mung beans are a short-duration crop, which shapes the whole calendar. Where a long-duration pulse occupies the ground for most of a year, green gram is planted, grown and harvested inside a compressed window, so it reaches the market quickly after the rains and it fits into cropping patterns that would not accommodate a longer-season crop.
That has a useful consequence for buyers. In bimodal-rainfall areas — much of Kenya, parts of Tanzania, Uganda — the crop can be grown twice in a calendar year, producing two windows rather than one. Availability is therefore spread more evenly than for pigeon peas, and the gap between old and new crop is shorter.
Ethiopia sits on a different pattern again, with its lowland crop harvested later in the calendar year, which extends the regional supply picture further.
Using the calendar
The export window shown extends beyond harvest because product ships from stored crop for months afterwards. Later in that window the proportion of carry-over stock increases, and because colour brightness fades with age, an offer late in the window should be checked on crop year and on a current sample.
Seasonality
Mung Beans (Green Gram) by origin
Mung Beans (Green Gram) crop calendar by origin
- Tanzania: Planting March to April and November to December. Harvest February to April and July to August. Peak availability March to April. Export window March to May and August to October. Short-duration crop, so it comes to market quickly after the rains. The central regions supply the main window.
- Kenya: Planting March to April and October to November. Harvest January to February and July to August. Peak availability January to February. Export window February to April and August to September. Green gram from the eastern counties; export availability depends on the domestic price.
- Ethiopia: Planting June to July. Harvest October to December. Peak availability November to December. Export window December to March.
- Uganda: Planting March to April and August to September. Harvest June to July and December to January. Peak availability June to July. Export window January to February and July to August.
- Tanzania: Short-duration crop, so it comes to market quickly after the rains. The central regions supply the main window.
- Kenya: Green gram from the eastern counties; export availability depends on the domestic price.
Crop timing may vary by region, rainfall patterns and growing season. Windows shown are indicative and should be confirmed against current-season availability before contracting.
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