Banana

Planted once, harvested year after year.

Check it on your land
Season
Whole year
JJASONDJFMAM
100% of its area.
Water
1,540–1,730 mm
over its season
Temperature
23–33 °C
0° survives 12–42 °C 40°

When to sow and harvest

Planted once at the start of the monsoon. It stays for years and gives a harvest every year.

Will it grow on your land?

Water
Season

Pick your place and water to see:

  • Whether Banana suits your land Good fit, possible or won't work, with the reasons.
  • What it could earn an acre From yields near you and mandi prices.
  • Water and fertiliser it needs Irrigations for your water, and bags for one acre.

What it needs

Temperature

23–33 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 12–42 °C. Frost hurts it.

Water

1,540–1,730 mm over its season

Rain and irrigation together, worked out where most of it grows:

Jalgaon Burhanpur Erode East Godavari Y.S.R. Kadapa

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 4 to 8.4.

Soil

  • No salty soil
  • Needs rich soil
  • K Needs plenty of potassium, zinc and boron
How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°).

Fertiliser for one acre

Draft: check with your KVK
Nitrogen
200 g
per tree, each year
Phosphate
60 g
per tree, each year
Potash
300 g
per tree, each year

For each plant over the crop, in 3 or 4 splits

Give the DAP and MOP at sowing, and the urea in two or three doses. If your soil card says a nutrient is low, add about a quarter more of it.

Watch out for

Draft: check with your KVK
  • Panama wilt
    Disease

    Look for

    Older leaves turn yellow and hang down around the stem; the stem splits and is brown inside.

    What to do first

    Plant suckers from healthy fields or tissue-culture plants and don't replant banana in infected soil.

  • Sigatoka leaf spot
    Disease

    Look for

    Yellow streaks that turn into brown spots; leaves dry early.

    What to do first

    Cut off spotted leaves; spray propiconazole or mineral oil as your KVK advises.

  • Bunchy top
    Disease

    Look for

    Plants stay short with narrow, bunched leaves and dark green streaks.

    What to do first

    Dig out and destroy sick plants; plant virus-free tissue-culture plants and control aphids.

  • Stem weevil
    Pest

    Look for

    Holes with jelly-like ooze on the stem; the plant breaks.

    What to do first

    Keep the field clean; cut old stems into pieces to trap the weevils.

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
April, ₹2,763
Lowest
January, ₹2,364
₹2,364
₹2,763
J F M A M J J A S O N D

Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis.

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India
4,51,897 ha
2019-20
Average yield
42.7 t/ha
2019-20
Most area
Burhanpur
Madhya Pradesh
Best yield
Krishna
102.7 t/ha

States that grow it

Production in each state's latest year with figures (2025-26).

  1. Maharashtra 87.5 lakh t
  2. Andhra Pradesh 79.0 lakh t
  3. Tamil Nadu 49.0 lakh t
  4. Uttar Pradesh 48.7 lakh t
  5. Gujarat 42.7 lakh t
  6. Madhya Pradesh 27.6 lakh t
  7. Bihar 19.2 lakh t
  8. West Bengal 14.7 lakh t
  9. Karnataka 12.6 lakh t
  10. Assam 12.1 lakh t

Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).

Districts with the most area (recent figures)

The map colours each district by yield, for districts growing it on at least 100 ha.

  1. Burhanpur, Madhya Pradesh 19,866 ha
  2. Erode, Tamil Nadu 16,004 ha
  3. East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh 13,197 ha
  4. Y.S.R. Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh 12,498 ha
  5. Palakkad, Kerala 11,598 ha
  6. Wayanad, Kerala 10,158 ha
  7. Ananthapuramu, Andhra Pradesh 9,666 ha
  8. West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh 9,045 ha
  9. Narmada, Gujarat 8,528 ha
  10. Thoothukkudi, Tamil Nadu 8,446 ha

Banana yield

  1. 1.2–15.8 t/ha
  2. 15.9–20.6 t/ha
  3. 20.6–40.4 t/ha
  4. 40.6–51.7 t/ha
  5. 52.9–102.7 t/ha
No data

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2003-04 to 2019-20.

Where yields are highest

  1. Krishna, Andhra Pradesh 102.7 t/ha
  2. Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh 101.4 t/ha
  3. Y.S.R. Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh 91.0 t/ha
  4. Bhavnagar, Gujarat 86.4 t/ha
  5. Khandwa (East Nimar), Madhya Pradesh 83.7 t/ha
  6. Anand, Gujarat 83.5 t/ha
  7. Chhotaudepur, Gujarat 81.0 t/ha
  8. Ananthapuramu, Andhra Pradesh 80.2 t/ha
  9. Vadodara, Gujarat 79.0 t/ha
  10. Gir Somnath, Gujarat 76.9 t/ha

Only districts growing it on at least 100 ha.

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2003-04 to 2019-20.

Across India over the years

Yield (t/ha)

0.0 23.8 47.6
2003-04 2019-20
Latest 42.7 t/ha in 2019-20

Area (ha)

335K 393K 452K
2003-04 2019-20
Latest 4,51,897 ha in 2019-20

Only years in which most of the usual districts reported are shown.

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2003-04 to 2019-20.

Soil and yield

How district soil tests line up with this crop's yields across India.

Banana yields tend to be higher in districts with

  • More soil that is neutral strong 168 districts
  • More soil that is alkaline moderate 168 districts
  • More soil short of iron moderate 167 districts

Banana yields tend to be lower in districts with

  • More soil that is acidic strong 168 districts
  • More soil low in potassium moderate 168 districts
  • More soil high in organic carbon moderate 167 districts

A pattern is not proof that soil causes the difference.

Source: Soil Health Card – soil nutrient analysis (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).