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 1,680 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 490 mm it can use in a normal year, and 380 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 37 °C / 27 °C
- Jul 31 °C / 24 °C
- Aug 31 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 32 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 32 °C / 22 °C
- Nov 31 °C / 18 °C
- Dec 30 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 30 °C / 16 °C
- Feb 33 °C / 18 °C
- Mar 36 °C / 22 °C
- Apr 39 °C / 25 °C
- May 41 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 37 °C / 27 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Banana: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: zinc, iron, copper and 2 more.
- The pH here suits it.
- Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
- Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 192 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (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–May 2026, August–November 2026): about ₹2,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹4,300 a quintal, the middle of 380 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹1,670 2023
- ₹3,000 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 313 quintals an acre. That's a realistic target.
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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.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
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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.