Banana
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. 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
- Needs care: Frost risk in January
- Not known: No soil data
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,210 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 680 mm it can use in a normal year, and 580 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 27 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 27 °C / 20 °C
- Aug 27 °C / 20 °C
- Sep 27 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 26 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 22 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 26 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 27 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- May 27 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 27 °C / 19 °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
Likes pH 5.5–7.5. We have no pH figures for this place.
Money
Yield: about 74 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none 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–November 2026): about ₹4,750 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹5,250 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹3,750 2023
- ₹4,250 2024
- ₹4,750 2025
Prices are usually best in July.
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.