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 1,740 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 470 mm it can use in a normal year, and 400 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 37 °C / 27 °C
- Jul 32 °C / 24 °C
- Aug 31 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 32 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 32 °C / 23 °C
- Nov 31 °C / 19 °C
- Dec 30 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 30 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 33 °C / 19 °C
- Mar 36 °C / 22 °C
- Apr 39 °C / 26 °C
- May 41 °C / 28 °C
- Jun 37 °C / 27 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Sugarcane: 8 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: zinc, iron, copper and 2 more.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
Likes pH 5.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 372 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
The better districts with similar soil, rain and warmth get 391 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.
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Short of organic carbon Your soil is likely short of organic carbon.
Add 4 tonnes of compost or farmyard manure per acre before sowing, and plough crop leftovers back in instead of burning them.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.