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 1,660 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 420 mm it can use in a normal year, and 340 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 40 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 33 °C / 26 °C
- Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
- Sep 33 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 33 °C / 20 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 26 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 24 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 34 °C / 17 °C
- Apr 40 °C / 23 °C
- May 43 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 40 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
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 boron, which it needs a lot.
- 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 283 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 (January–November 2026): about ₹1,600 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹1,525 a quintal, the middle of 18 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹1,040 2021
- ₹1,200 2022
- ₹1,200 2023
- ₹1,400 2025
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
The better districts with similar soil, rain and warmth get 176 quintals an acre. That's a realistic target.
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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.
About 100% of local fields of this crop get it.
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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.
Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.
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Short of boron Your soil is likely short of boron.
Mix 4 kg of borax per acre into the soil 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):
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 100%