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 460 mm it can use in a normal year, and 400 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 36 °C / 26 °C
- Jul 30 °C / 24 °C
- Aug 29 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 30 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 31 °C / 21 °C
- Nov 29 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 31 °C / 15 °C
- Mar 35 °C / 20 °C
- Apr 39 °C / 24 °C
- May 41 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 36 °C / 26 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Banana: 8 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
- 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 ₹2,425 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹2,100 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹1,900 2021
- ₹3,430 2022
- ₹3,500 2023
- ₹3,430 2024
Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.
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 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.
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Short of zinc Your soil is likely short of zinc.
Mix 10 kg of zinc sulphate per acre into the soil before sowing. One dose lasts two or three seasons.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.