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
- Needs care: Frost risk in January
- 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 1,280 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 470 mm it can use in a normal year, and 440 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 37 °C / 25 °C
- Jul 32 °C / 24 °C
- Aug 31 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 31 °C / 22 °C
- Oct 29 °C / 17 °C
- Nov 24 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 17 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 26 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 32 °C / 19 °C
- May 36 °C / 24 °C
- Jun 37 °C / 25 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Nights in January can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.
Soil
Soil for Banana: 8 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: sulphur, zinc, iron and 3 more.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
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 ₹3,200 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹3,275 a quintal, the middle of 2 mandis in your district (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹2,700 2022
- ₹2,840 2023
- ₹2,700 2024
- ₹3,060 2025
Prices are usually best in July.
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.