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
- Needs care: Frost risk 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 1,220 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 660 mm it can use in a normal year, and 570 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 28 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 27 °C / 21 °C
- Aug 28 °C / 21 °C
- Sep 28 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 26 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 25 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 27 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- May 28 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 28 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Nights in January can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.
Soil
Soil for Sugarcane: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 5.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 158 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 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.