Banana
Holds the land all year
Grown on 6.6 acres here. Last recorded in 2013-14. Sold at 2 mandis in your district.
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 360 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 39 °C / 27 °C
- Jul 32 °C / 24 °C
- Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
- Oct 33 °C / 20 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 27 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 25 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 29 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 34 °C / 18 °C
- Apr 40 °C / 23 °C
- May 43 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 39 °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.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
- Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 283 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (no recent yield figures 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 (January–November 2026): about ₹1,400 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹1,400 a quintal, the middle of 2 mandis in your district (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹1,100 2022
- ₹1,150 2023
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.