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 1,590 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 270 mm it can use in a normal year, and 190 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 / 28 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 35 °C / 27 °C
- Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
- Oct 34 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 29 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 24 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 21 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 25 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 32 °C / 15 °C
- Apr 38 °C / 21 °C
- May 42 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Banana: 7 out of 10 (okay).
Not in the score: boron.
- 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 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 2024–November 2025): about ₹2,473 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).
- ₹2,030 2021
- ₹2,100 2022
- ₹2,230 2023
- ₹2,300 2024
- ₹2,550 2025
Prices are usually best in March.
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.
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.
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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.