Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Needs care: Risky: 10 irrigations short
- Needs care: Cool in November
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 10 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,260 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 770 mm it can use in a normal year, and 680 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 29 °C / 23 °C
- Jul 29 °C / 24 °C
- Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 30 °C / 23 °C
- Oct 29 °C / 21 °C
- Nov 26 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 23 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 22 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 25 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 29 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 30 °C / 20 °C
- May 30 °C / 22 °C
- Jun 29 °C / 23 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Sugarcane: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: sulphur.
- The pH here suits it.
- Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
- Most fields here are short of zinc.
Likes pH 5.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 337 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.
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 174 quintals an acre. That's a realistic target.
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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 zinc Your soil is likely short of zinc.
Mix 10 kg of zinc sulphate per acre into the soil before sowing. One dose lasts two or three seasons.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.