Sugarcane
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Doesn't suit: Too cold in january
- 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 1,100 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 470 mm it can use in a normal year, and 430 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 / 19 °C
- Jul 26 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 25 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 25 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 23 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 16 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 13 °C / 3 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 17 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 27 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- May 29 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 29 °C / 19 °C
Nights in December can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.
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 357 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
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 cane price Uttarakhand fixed for its mills for 2025-26: ₹395 a quintal, ₹405 for early varieties.
- ₹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.