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 1,670 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 / 26 °C
- Jul 31 °C / 24 °C
- Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 31 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 32 °C / 21 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 15 °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 (outside its best range)
- Mar 36 °C / 19 °C
- Apr 40 °C / 24 °C
- May 43 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 38 °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.
- Most fields here are short of sulphur.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 83 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).
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 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.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.