Ginger

Water

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

Needs about 960 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 830 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 36 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• May 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 33 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 33 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 32 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 27 °C / 13 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 45 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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 ₹6,253 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.