Ginger

Water

Rain falls about 9 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 970 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 570 mm it can use in a normal year, and 440 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 43 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 40 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 33 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in May get hotter than it likes. Time sowing so it flowers before then.

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 organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 56 quintals an acre here (district figures).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (February 2026): about ₹3,500 a quintal at mandis in your district.

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.