Banana
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across India.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Not known: No soil data
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,430 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 460 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 39 °C / 26 °C
- Jul 34 °C / 26 °C
- Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 33 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 32 °C / 18 °C
- Nov 27 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 22 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 23 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 29 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 35 °C / 20 °C
- May 39 °C / 25 °C
- Jun 39 °C / 26 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Likes pH 5.5–7.5. We have no pH figures for this place.
Money
Yield: about 158 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).
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 ₹3,138 a quintal across India's mandis.
This week: about ₹4,300 a quintal, the middle of 380 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹2,160 2021
- ₹2,290 2022
- ₹2,500 2023
- ₹2,770 2024
- ₹2,770 2025
Prices are usually best in November.
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.