Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Needs care: Soil 7/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,760 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 320 mm it can use in a normal year, and 270 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 / 27 °C
- Jul 32 °C / 26 °C
- Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
- Sep 32 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 35 °C / 22 °C
- Nov 33 °C / 18 °C
- Dec 31 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 29 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 32 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 36 °C / 20 °C
- Apr 38 °C / 24 °C
- May 39 °C / 26 °C
- Jun 36 °C / 27 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Sugarcane: 7 out of 10 (okay).
- The pH here suits it.
- Salt in the soil here can harm 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 282 quintals an acre here (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 359 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.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.