Ginger

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 700 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 660 mm it can use in a normal year, and 480 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 28 °C / 16 °C
• Jun 29 °C / 18 °C
• Jul 26 °C / 18 °C
• Aug 25 °C / 17 °C
• Sep 25 °C / 16 °C
• Oct 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 15 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)

Nights in December can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Soil for Ginger: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: sulphur, zinc, iron and 3 more.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.

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).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹8,000 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.