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 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
- Needs care: Soil 7/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,760 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 440 mm it can use in a normal year, and 420 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 / 27 °C
- Jul 32 °C / 24 °C
- Aug 31 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 32 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 33 °C / 21 °C
- Nov 31 °C / 17 °C
- Dec 30 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 30 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 33 °C / 17 °C
- Mar 37 °C / 20 °C
- Apr 41 °C / 25 °C
- May 44 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 38 °C / 27 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Banana: 7 out of 10 (okay).
- The pH here suits 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 233 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none 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 (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹1,503 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹1,805 a quintal, the middle of 6 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹980 2021
- ₹1,160 2022
- ₹1,400 2023
- ₹1,600 2025
Prices are usually best in June.
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.
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 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.
Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.
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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.
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):
- Urea 100%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 78%
- Single Super Phosphate (SSP) 78%
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 70%