Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Needs care: Risky: 29 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 29 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,740 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 320 mm it can use in a normal year, and 240 mm in a dry year.
About 49% of Sugarcane in Surendranagar, the nearest district with figures, is grown on rain alone. Your district has no figure of its own.
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 33 °C / 26 °C
- Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
- Sep 33 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 35 °C / 22 °C
- Nov 33 °C / 17 °C
- Dec 30 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 28 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 32 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 36 °C / 19 °C
- Apr 38 °C / 23 °C
- May 39 °C / 26 °C
- Jun 37 °C / 27 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Sugarcane: 8 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of boron.
Likes pH 5.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 300 quintals an acre here in this season (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
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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 boron Your soil is likely short of boron.
Mix 4 kg of borax per acre into the soil before sowing.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.