Ginger

Water

Rain falls about 12 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 990 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 430 mm it can use in a normal year, and 280 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 44 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 41 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 34 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)

Days in May get hotter than it likes. Time sowing so it flowers before then.

Soil

Soil for Ginger: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: sulphur.

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 19 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).

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 at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹4,475 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in July.

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.