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.
₹3.1 lakh–₹4.7 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
After typical costs: ₹98,000–₹2.5 lakh an acre a year
- Needs care: Risky: 5 irrigations short
- Needs care: Cool in October
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 5 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,120 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 880 mm it can use in a normal year, and 850 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 29 °C / 22 °C
- Jul 29 °C / 22 °C
- Aug 29 °C / 22 °C
- Sep 28 °C / 21 °C
- Oct 27 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 25 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 21 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 20 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 22 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 25 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 27 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- May 28 °C / 20 °C
- Jun 29 °C / 22 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Banana: 9 out of 10 (good).
- 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 manganese.
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 79% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 79% 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 ₹3.2 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.
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 manganese Your soil is likely short of manganese.
Spray manganese sulphate, 5 g per litre of water, on the young crop.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.