Ginger

Water

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

Needs about 800 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 900 mm it can use in a normal year, and 700 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):

• Apr 28 °C / 16 °C
• May 28 °C / 18 °C
• Jun 27 °C / 20 °C
• Jul 27 °C / 21 °C
• Aug 27 °C / 20 °C
• Sep 27 °C / 20 °C
• Oct 26 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 23 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Ginger: 5 out of 10 (poor).

Not in the score: organic carbon.

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 48 quintals an acre here (older figures, 2018-19).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025–January 2026): about ₹4,750 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in August.

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.