Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Needs care: Cool in June
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,420 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 560 mm it can use in a normal year, and 500 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 26 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 24 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 24 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 25 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 26 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 26 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 26 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 27 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 29 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 31 °C / 19 °C
- Apr 30 °C / 20 °C
- May 30 °C / 20 °C
- Jun 26 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Sugarcane: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 5.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 361 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 321 quintals an acre. That's a realistic target.