Banana
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across India.
₹3.3 lakh–₹5.0 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
After typical costs: ₹1.2 lakh–₹2.8 lakh an acre a year
- Needs care: Risky: 4 irrigations short
- Doesn't suit: Frost in january kills it
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 4 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,060 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 880 mm it can use in a normal year, and 840 mm in a dry year.
Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.
Temperature
Grows best at 23–33 °C on average, and survives 12–42 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 25 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 25 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 25 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 24 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 23 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 20 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 16 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 15 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 16 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 22 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- May 24 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 25 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
Nights in December can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.
Soil
Soil for Banana: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 158 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).
On rain alone it gets about 83% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 83% of this yield.
Mandi price through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹3,138 a quintal across India's mandis.
This week: about ₹4,300 a quintal, the middle of 380 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹3.5 lakh a year after typical costs.
- ₹2,160 2021
- ₹2,290 2022
- ₹2,500 2023
- ₹2,770 2024
- ₹2,770 2025
Prices are usually best in November.
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.