Banana
Holds the land all year
Grown on 4.9 acres here. Last recorded in 2016-17. 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 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 1,670 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 380 mm it can use in a normal year, and 330 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 / 28 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 32 °C / 26 °C
- Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
- Sep 32 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 34 °C / 20 °C
- Nov 32 °C / 16 °C
- Dec 29 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 26 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 30 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 36 °C / 19 °C
- Apr 40 °C / 24 °C
- May 42 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 38 °C / 28 °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, sulphur and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
- Most fields here are short of iron.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 158 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (your district's own figure looked wrong).
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 ₹2,150 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹2,100 a quintal, the middle of 7 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹1,780 2021
- ₹2,030 2022
- ₹2,240 2023
- ₹2,300 2024
- ₹2,440 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 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.
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.