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 410 mm it can use in a normal year, and 310 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 39 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 34 °C / 27 °C
- Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 33 °C / 26 °C
- Oct 33 °C / 21 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 25 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 27 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 33 °C / 17 °C
- Apr 39 °C / 23 °C
- May 42 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 39 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Banana: 8 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of zinc, 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 194 quintals an acre here (district figures).
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 (January–February 2025, May 2025, October–November 2025): about ₹2,635 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).
- ₹1,600 2022
- ₹2,510 2023
- ₹2,810 2024
Prices are usually best in February.
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 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.
About 100% of local fields of this crop get it.
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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.
Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 100%
- Urea 100%