Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Needs care: Cool in November
- Needs care: Soil 6/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,320 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 660 mm it can use in a normal year, and 580 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 28 °C / 22 °C
- Jul 28 °C / 22 °C
- Aug 28 °C / 22 °C
- Sep 29 °C / 22 °C
- Oct 28 °C / 21 °C
- Nov 26 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 23 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 23 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 26 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 29 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 31 °C / 20 °C
- May 30 °C / 21 °C
- Jun 28 °C / 22 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Sugarcane: 6 out of 10 (okay).
Not in the score: salt, sulphur, zinc and 4 more.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
Likes pH 5.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 124 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 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 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.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
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Short of phosphorus Your soil is likely short of phosphorus.
Add about a quarter more DAP or single super phosphate than the usual dose, at sowing.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
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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.