Banana
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Sold at 7 mandis in your district.
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 1,410 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 840 mm it can use in a normal year, and 790 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 23–33 °C on average, and survives 12–42 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 32 °C / 25 °C
- Jul 32 °C / 25 °C
- Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
- Sep 32 °C / 25 °C
- Oct 31 °C / 23 °C
- Nov 29 °C / 17 °C
- Dec 26 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 25 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 29 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 32 °C / 18 °C
- Apr 33 °C / 22 °C
- May 33 °C / 23 °C
- Jun 32 °C / 25 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Banana: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
- Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
- Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 40 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.
Mandi price through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹2,150 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹2,300 a quintal, the middle of 2 mandis in your district (latest 12 Nov).
- ₹1,170 2021
- ₹3,950 2022
- ₹4,000 2023
- ₹3,250 2024
- ₹3,500 2025
Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.
Prices are usually best in February.
Typical costs are about ₹2.1 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. 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 organic carbon Your soil is likely short of organic carbon.
Add 4 tonnes of compost or farmyard manure per acre before sowing, and plough crop leftovers back in instead of burning them.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.