Banana
Holds the land all year
Grown on 3.7 acres here. Last recorded in 2012-13. Priced from mandis across your state.
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 1,740 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 400 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 38 °C / 26 °C
- Jul 31 °C / 23 °C
- Aug 29 °C / 23 °C
- Sep 31 °C / 22 °C
- Oct 34 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 32 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 29 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 27 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 31 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 36 °C / 17 °C
- Apr 40 °C / 22 °C
- May 42 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 38 °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 nitrogen.
- Most fields here are short of iron.
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 ₹1,600 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
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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 iron Your soil is likely short of iron.
Spray ferrous sulphate, 5 g per litre of water, when young leaves turn yellow.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.