Ginger

Water

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

Needs about 870 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 760 mm it can use in a normal year, and 610 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 30 °C / 16 °C
• May 30 °C / 19 °C
• Jun 29 °C / 21 °C
• Jul 29 °C / 22 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 22 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 28 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 25 °C / 13 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Likes pH 6.0–7.0. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 50 quintals an acre here (older figures, 2016-17).

On rain alone it gets about 87% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 87% of this yield.

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

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.