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 790 mm it can use in a normal year, and 630 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 25 °C / 15 °C
• Jun 25 °C / 18 °C
• Jul 25 °C / 18 °C
• Aug 25 °C / 18 °C
• Sep 25 °C / 17 °C
• Oct 24 °C / 15 °C
• Nov 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 18 °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

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

Money

Yield: about 47 quintals an acre here (older figures, 2018-19).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 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.