Banana
Holds the land all year
Grown on 20 acres here. Last recorded in 2017-18. 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
- 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 1,670 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 330 mm it can use in a normal year, and 300 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 / 27 °C
- Jul 32 °C / 25 °C
- Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
- Sep 32 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 35 °C / 21 °C
- Nov 32 °C / 16 °C
- Dec 29 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 27 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 31 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 36 °C / 19 °C
- Apr 40 °C / 24 °C
- May 41 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 38 °C / 27 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Banana: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 158 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (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–November 2026): about ₹2,150 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹2,100 a quintal, the middle of 7 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹1,780 2021
- ₹2,030 2022
- ₹2,240 2023
- ₹2,300 2024
- ₹2,440 2025
Prices are usually best in June.
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.