Banana
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Sold at 4 mandis in your district.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Needs care: Frost risk in January
- 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 1,520 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 230 mm it can use in a normal year, and 180 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 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 36 °C / 27 °C
- Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 34 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 33 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 23 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 23 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 29 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 37 °C / 20 °C
- May 41 °C / 25 °C
- Jun 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Nights in January can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.
Soil
Soil for Banana: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
- Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 158 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).
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 ₹2,300 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹2,500 a quintal, the middle of 33 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹1,300 2021
- ₹1,350 2022
- ₹1,600 2023
- ₹3,000 2024
- ₹3,000 2025
Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.
Prices are usually best in January.
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.