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 India.
₹2.9 lakh–₹4.3 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
After typical costs: ₹74,000–₹2.2 lakh an acre a year
- Needs care: Risky: 7 irrigations short
- Needs care: Cool in October
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 7 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,130 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 820 mm it can use in a normal year, and 770 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 29 °C / 21 °C
- Jul 29 °C / 22 °C
- Aug 29 °C / 22 °C
- Sep 29 °C / 21 °C
- Oct 27 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 23 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 25 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- May 27 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 29 °C / 21 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Banana: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
- 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).
On rain alone it gets about 73% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 73% of this yield.
Mandi price through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹3,138 a quintal across India's mandis.
This week: about ₹4,300 a quintal, the middle of 380 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹2.8 lakh a year after typical costs.
- ₹2,160 2021
- ₹2,290 2022
- ₹2,500 2023
- ₹2,770 2024
- ₹2,770 2025
Prices are usually best in November.
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.