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 your state.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- 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 1,430 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 620 mm it can use in a normal year, and 560 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 34 °C / 26 °C
- Jul 33 °C / 26 °C
- Aug 32 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 33 °C / 26 °C
- Oct 32 °C / 24 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 19 °C
- Dec 27 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 25 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 29 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 33 °C / 21 °C
- Apr 35 °C / 24 °C
- May 36 °C / 26 °C
- Jun 34 °C / 26 °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 zinc, which it needs a lot.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of sulphur.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 88 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 (June 2025–May 2026): about ₹1,900 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹4,300 a quintal, the middle of 380 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹2,500 2022
- ₹1,960 2023
- ₹2,370 2024
- ₹1,900 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.
How to make it work
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Short of sulphur Your soil is likely short of sulphur.
Use single super phosphate instead of DAP, or add about 100 kg of gypsum per acre before sowing.
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 100%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 37%
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 4%
- NPK Mixture 4%