Banana
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Sold at 4 mandis in your district.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Doesn't suit: Frost in january kills it
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,150 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 490 mm it can use in a normal year, and 420 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 31 °C / 21 °C
- Jul 28 °C / 21 °C
- Aug 27 °C / 20 °C
- Sep 27 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 25 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 17 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 15 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 18 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 23 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 28 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- May 31 °C / 19 °C
- Jun 31 °C / 21 °C
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).
Not in the score: organic carbon, sulphur, manganese and boron.
- 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).
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–November 2026): about ₹4,250 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹4,250 a quintal, the middle of 21 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹2,700 2021
- ₹3,500 2022
- ₹4,500 2023
- ₹4,500 2024
- ₹4,500 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.