Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Not known: No soil data
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,710 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 390 mm it can use in a normal year, and 380 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 34 °C / 26 °C
- Jul 31 °C / 25 °C
- Aug 30 °C / 25 °C
- Sep 31 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 34 °C / 23 °C
- Nov 34 °C / 19 °C
- Dec 32 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 31 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 33 °C / 16 °C
- Mar 36 °C / 20 °C
- Apr 37 °C / 24 °C
- May 37 °C / 26 °C
- Jun 34 °C / 26 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Likes pH 5.0–8.0. We have no pH figures for this place.
Money
Yield: about 361 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.