Banana
Holds the land all year
Grown on 4,158 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
- Needs care: Cool in June
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,350 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 600 mm it can use in a normal year, and 530 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 26 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 24 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 24 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 25 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 26 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 26 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 26 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 27 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 29 °C / 17 °C
- Mar 31 °C / 19 °C
- Apr 30 °C / 20 °C
- May 30 °C / 20 °C
- Jun 26 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Banana: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
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.