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 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 1,630 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 450 mm it can use in a normal year, and 410 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 38 °C / 27 °C
- Jul 32 °C / 25 °C
- Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
- Sep 31 °C / 25 °C
- Oct 31 °C / 22 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 28 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 27 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 31 °C / 16 °C
- Mar 35 °C / 20 °C
- Apr 39 °C / 25 °C
- May 42 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 38 °C / 27 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Banana: 8 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
- Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 74 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).
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 ₹2,300 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹2,100 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹1,800 2021
- ₹3,000 2022
- ₹2,950 2023
- ₹2,600 2024
Prices are usually best in January.
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.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
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Short of organic carbon Your soil is likely short of organic carbon.
Add 4 tonnes of compost or farmyard manure per acre before sowing, and plough crop leftovers back in instead of burning them.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.