Banana
Holds the land all year
Grown on 9.9 acres here. Last recorded in 2017-18. Sold at 2 mandis in your district.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,580 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 340 mm it can use in a normal year, and 280 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 23–33 °C on average, and survives 12–42 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 37 °C / 27 °C
- Jul 31 °C / 25 °C
- Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
- Oct 33 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 26 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 24 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 28 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 34 °C / 18 °C
- Apr 38 °C / 23 °C
- May 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 37 °C / 27 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Banana: 8 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
- Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 158 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (your district's own figure looked wrong).
Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.
Mandi price through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹1,925 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹2,100 a quintal, the middle of 7 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹1,250 2022
- ₹1,600 2023
- ₹1,800 2024
- ₹1,880 2025
Prices are usually best in July.
Typical costs are about ₹2.1 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.
How to make it work
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Short of organic carbon Your soil is likely short of organic carbon.
Add 4 tonnes of compost or farmyard manure per acre before sowing, and plough crop leftovers back in instead of burning them.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
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Short of iron Your soil is likely short of iron.
Spray ferrous sulphate, 5 g per litre of water, when young leaves turn yellow.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.