Banana
Holds the land all year
Grown on 610 acres here. Last recorded in 2016-17. 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 1,630 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 250 mm it can use in a normal year, and 180 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 37 °C / 27 °C
- Jul 33 °C / 26 °C
- Aug 32 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 33 °C / 25 °C
- Oct 36 °C / 23 °C
- Nov 34 °C / 18 °C
- Dec 30 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 31 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 35 °C / 19 °C
- Apr 37 °C / 23 °C
- May 38 °C / 26 °C
- Jun 37 °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.
- Salt in the soil here can harm it.
- Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 296 quintals an acre here (older figures, 2016-17).
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 ₹2,081 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹2,000 a quintal, the middle of 8 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹2,030 2022
- ₹2,310 2023
- ₹2,140 2024
- ₹2,180 2025
Prices are usually best in July.
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 zinc Your soil is likely short of zinc.
Mix 10 kg of zinc sulphate per acre into the soil before sowing. One dose lasts two or three seasons.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.