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 1,520 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 410 mm it can use in a normal year, and 370 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 36 °C / 26 °C
- Jul 33 °C / 26 °C
- Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 33 °C / 26 °C
- Oct 32 °C / 23 °C
- Nov 29 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 24 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 27 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 32 °C / 16 °C
- Apr 37 °C / 22 °C
- May 37 °C / 25 °C
- Jun 36 °C / 26 °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.
Likes pH 5.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 229 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).
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
The better districts with similar soil, rain and warmth get 276 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 100% of local fields of this crop get it.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 100%