Banana
Holds the land all year
Grown on 1,595 acres here. Last recorded in 2011-12. Sold at 2 mandis in your district.
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 1,570 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 420 mm it can use in a normal year, and 370 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 31 °C / 22 °C
- Jul 30 °C / 21 °C
- Aug 30 °C / 21 °C
- Sep 30 °C / 21 °C
- Oct 29 °C / 20 °C
- Nov 27 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 27 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 28 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 31 °C / 17 °C
- Mar 34 °C / 19 °C
- Apr 35 °C / 22 °C
- May 34 °C / 23 °C
- Jun 31 °C / 22 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Banana: 8 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
- Many fields here are short of zinc, 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 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, February 2026, April–May 2026, August 2026, October 2026): about ₹2,513 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹2,775 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).
Prices are usually best in December.
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 84% 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.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 84%
- Urea 63%
- Zinc Sulphate Heptahydrate / Monohydrate 40%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 19%