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.
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 1,320 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 710 mm it can use in a normal year, and 630 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 30 °C / 23 °C
- Jul 30 °C / 24 °C
- Aug 30 °C / 23 °C
- Sep 30 °C / 23 °C
- Oct 30 °C / 23 °C
- Nov 27 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 25 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 24 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 27 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 31 °C / 19 °C
- Apr 33 °C / 22 °C
- May 32 °C / 23 °C
- Jun 30 °C / 23 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Banana: 7 out of 10 (okay).
Not in the score: salt, sulphur, zinc and 4 more.
- The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 48 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
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 ₹3,138 a quintal across India's mandis.
This week: about ₹4,300 a quintal, the middle of 380 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹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.
Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 8%