Banana
Holds the land all year
Grown on 369 acres here. Last recorded in 2011-12. 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 1,750 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 450 mm it can use in a normal year, and 380 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 35 °C / 24 °C
- Jul 31 °C / 22 °C
- Aug 30 °C / 21 °C
- Sep 30 °C / 21 °C
- Oct 31 °C / 20 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 17 °C
- Dec 29 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 30 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 34 °C / 17 °C
- Mar 37 °C / 21 °C
- Apr 40 °C / 24 °C
- May 41 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 35 °C / 24 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Banana: 8 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: phosphorus.
- 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 sulphur.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 109 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 (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹2,363 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹2,775 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹2,110 2021
- ₹3,330 2022
- ₹3,400 2023
- ₹3,200 2025
Prices are usually best in August.
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 sulphur Your soil is likely short of sulphur.
Use single super phosphate instead of DAP, or add about 100 kg of gypsum per acre before sowing.
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.
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Short of boron Your soil is likely short of boron.
Mix 4 kg of borax per acre into the soil before sowing.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.