Ginger

Water

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

Needs about 720 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 830 mm it can use in a normal year, and 650 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 31 °C / 19 °C
• Jun 31 °C / 21 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 21 °C
• Aug 27 °C / 20 °C
• Sep 27 °C / 19 °C
• Oct 25 °C / 14 °C
• Nov 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 17 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are 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: organic carbon, sulphur, manganese and boron.

• The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 21 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (January 2026): about ₹5,500 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.