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 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,700 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 360 mm it can use in a normal year, and 290 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 24–37 °C on average, and survives 15–41 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 40 °C / 28 °C
- Jul 33 °C / 25 °C
- Aug 31 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 32 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 34 °C / 20 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 26 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 24 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 34 °C / 18 °C
- Apr 40 °C / 23 °C
- May 43 °C / 28 °C
- Jun 40 °C / 28 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Sugarcane: 8 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of sulphur.
Likes pH 5.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 333 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (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.
Priced at the cane price Uttar Pradesh fixed for its mills for 2025-26: ₹390 a quintal, ₹400 for early varieties.
- ₹300 2021
- ₹300 2022
- ₹300 2023
- ₹330 2024
- ₹350 2025
Prices are usually best in May.
Typical costs are about ₹61,000 an acre (seed, fertiliser, labour and hired machines, from the government's cost survey). They are spent whatever the harvest.
How to make it work
The better districts with similar soil, rain and warmth get 360 quintals an acre. That's a realistic target.
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Short of nitrogen Your soil is likely short of nitrogen.
Add about a quarter more urea than the usual dose, in two or three splits. A pulse crop in rotation also adds nitrogen.
About 97% of local fields of this crop get it.
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Short of sulphur Your soil is likely short of sulphur.
Use single super phosphate instead of DAP, or add about 100 kg of gypsum per acre before sowing.
About 16% of local fields of this crop get it.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 97%
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 66%
- Zinc Sulphate Heptahydrate / Monohydrate 16%
- Single Super Phosphate (SSP) 7%