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
- Needs care: Risky: 10 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 10 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,280 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 790 mm it can use in a normal year, and 740 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 32 °C / 26 °C
- Jul 32 °C / 26 °C
- Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 32 °C / 25 °C
- Oct 32 °C / 23 °C
- Nov 29 °C / 18 °C
- Dec 26 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 24 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 26 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 30 °C / 19 °C
- Apr 31 °C / 22 °C
- May 33 °C / 24 °C
- Jun 32 °C / 26 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Banana: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: sulphur.
- The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
- Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
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 phosphorus Your soil is likely short of phosphorus.
Add about a quarter more DAP or single super phosphate than the usual dose, at 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%