Ginger

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 910 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,490 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,240 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

Grows best at 19–29 °C on average, and survives 13–35 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Apr 30 °C / 20 °C
• May 31 °C / 22 °C
• Jun 32 °C / 25 °C
• Jul 32 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 32 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Ginger: 8 out of 10 (good).

• Soil here is often more acidic than it likes.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 35 quintals an acre here (district figures).

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.