Ginger

Water

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

Needs about 900 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 840 mm it can use in a normal year, and 670 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 40 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 35 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 29 °C / 22 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 22 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 30 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Ginger: 9 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 70 quintals an acre here (district figures).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹3,300 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in July.

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.