₹99,000–₹1.5 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
Likely a loss at typical costs: ₹64,000–₹1.1 lakh an acre a year
- Needs care: Risky: 10 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 10 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,410 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 940 mm it can use in a normal year, and 870 mm in a dry year.
Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.
Temperature
Grows best at 23–33 °C on average, and survives 12–42 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 31 °C / 24 °C
- Jul 30 °C / 24 °C
- Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 31 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 31 °C / 24 °C
- Nov 31 °C / 24 °C
- Dec 31 °C / 23 °C
- Jan 32 °C / 23 °C
- Feb 32 °C / 24 °C
- Mar 33 °C / 25 °C
- Apr 33 °C / 25 °C
- May 33 °C / 26 °C
- Jun 31 °C / 24 °C
Soil
Soil for Banana: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 38 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).
On rain alone it gets about 67% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 67% of this yield.
Mandi price through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹4,850 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹6,500 a quintal, the middle of 17 mandis in your district (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would lose about ₹46,000 a year at typical costs.
- ₹3,250 2021
- ₹5,300 2022
- ₹4,350 2023
- ₹5,000 2024
- ₹5,400 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
The better districts with similar soil, rain and warmth get 68 quintals an acre. That's a realistic target.
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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.
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 42%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 33%
- Ammonium Phosphate Sulphate / Nitrogen Phosphate 12%
- Single Super Phosphate (SSP) 2%