Ginger

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 1,000 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 390 mm it can use in a normal year, and 280 mm in a dry year.

About 0% of Ginger in Shivpuri, the nearest district with figures, is grown on rain alone. Your district has no figure of its own.

Temperature

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

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

• May 44 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 41 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 35 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 34 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 13 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 9 °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.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 61 quintals an acre here (district figures).

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

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.