Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Needs care: Soil 7/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,500 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 390 mm it can use in a normal year, and 350 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 38 °C / 26 °C
- Jul 34 °C / 26 °C
- Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 33 °C / 25 °C
- Oct 32 °C / 20 °C
- Nov 28 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 23 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 21 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 31 °C / 16 °C
- Apr 38 °C / 21 °C
- May 40 °C / 25 °C
- Jun 38 °C / 26 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Banana: 7 out of 10 (okay).
- The pH here suits it.
- Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
- Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 187 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (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 (October 2026): about ₹2,475 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹2,000 a quintal, the middle of 3 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹2,360 2021
- ₹2,700 2022
- ₹2,800 2023
- ₹2,850 2024
- ₹2,780 2025
Prices are usually best in October.
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
The better districts with similar soil, rain and warmth get 190 quintals an acre. That's a realistic target.
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Short of nitrogen Your soil is likely short of nitrogen.
Add about a quarter more urea than the usual dose, in two or three splits. A pulse crop in rotation also adds nitrogen.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
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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.