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 10 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
- Needs care: Soil 7/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,450 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 420 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 38 °C / 26 °C
- Jul 34 °C / 26 °C
- Aug 33 °C / 25 °C
- Sep 32 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 31 °C / 18 °C
- Nov 27 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 22 °C / 8 °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 / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 36 °C / 20 °C
- May 39 °C / 24 °C
- Jun 38 °C / 26 °C
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: 7 out of 10 (okay).
Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.
- 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.
- Most fields here are short of manganese.
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 ₹2,450 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹2,250 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your district (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹1,500 2021
- ₹2,000 2022
- ₹2,050 2023
- ₹2,000 2024
- ₹2,400 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.
How to make it work
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Short of potassium Your soil is likely short of potassium.
Add about a quarter more potash (MOP) than the usual dose.
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.
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Short of manganese Your soil is likely short of manganese.
Spray manganese sulphate, 5 g per litre of water, on the young crop.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.