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 10/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,590 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 400 mm it can use in a normal year, and 340 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 39 °C / 28 °C
- Jul 34 °C / 27 °C
- Aug 33 °C / 27 °C
- Sep 32 °C / 26 °C
- Oct 32 °C / 22 °C
- Nov 29 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 23 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 27 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 34 °C / 18 °C
- Apr 40 °C / 24 °C
- May 42 °C / 27 °C
- Jun 39 °C / 28 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Sugarcane: 10 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
- Most fields here are short of boron.
Likes pH 5.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 135 quintals an acre here (older figures, 2015-16).
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 government's fair and remunerative price for cane, ₹365 a quintal.
- ₹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
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Short of boron Your soil is likely short of boron.
Mix 4 kg of borax per acre into the soil before sowing.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.