Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- 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 1,680 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 320 mm it can use in a normal year, and 280 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 / 29 °C
- Jul 34 °C / 26 °C
- Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
- Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
- Oct 35 °C / 21 °C
- Nov 31 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 26 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 28 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 34 °C / 19 °C
- Apr 40 °C / 24 °C
- May 43 °C / 29 °C
- Jun 40 °C / 29 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Sugarcane: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen, sulphur and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 5.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 362 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
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 98%
- Urea 96%