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: ₹77,000–₹2.2 lakh an acre a year
- Needs care: Risky: 6 irrigations short
- Needs care: Cool in October
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 6 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,100 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 800 mm it can use in a normal year, and 750 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 28 °C / 21 °C
- Jul 28 °C / 21 °C
- Aug 28 °C / 21 °C
- Sep 27 °C / 20 °C
- Oct 27 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 24 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 20 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 19 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 21 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 23 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 25 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
- May 27 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 28 °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.
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.