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: Cool in November
- Not known: No soil data
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,530 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 240 mm it can use in a normal year, and 150 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 40 °C / 28 °C
- Jul 36 °C / 27 °C
- Aug 34 °C / 27 °C
- Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
- Oct 33 °C / 20 °C
- Nov 28 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 23 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 31 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 37 °C / 22 °C
- May 40 °C / 26 °C
- Jun 40 °C / 28 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Likes pH 5.0–8.0. We have no pH figures for this place.
Money
Yield: about 337 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).
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.