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 1,630 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 400 mm it can use in a normal year, and 320 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 40 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 34 °C / 27 °C
- Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 33 °C / 25 °C
- Oct 34 °C / 21 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 25 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 23 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 28 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 34 °C / 18 °C
- Apr 40 °C / 23 °C
- May 43 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 40 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Banana: 8 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: sulphur.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
- 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 (December 2025–February 2026, April–June 2026): about ₹2,100 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).
- ₹2,180 2023
- ₹2,270 2024
- ₹2,130 2025
Prices are usually best in May.
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 207 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.