Ginger

Water

Rain falls about 3 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 770 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 660 mm it can use in a normal year, and 560 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 19–29 °C on average, and survives 13–35 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• May 35 °C / 23 °C
• Jun 35 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 30 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 27 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 23 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Ginger: 10 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen, organic carbon, sulphur and boron.

• The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 22 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).

On rain alone it gets about 86% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 86% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (February 2026): about ₹6,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Prices are usually best in June.

Typical costs are about ₹1.0 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.