Ginger

Water

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

Needs about 990 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 760 mm it can use in a normal year, and 580 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 42 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 38 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 28 °C / 11 °C

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: 9 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of sulphur, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 67 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).

On rain alone it gets about 77% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 77% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (February 2026): about ₹5,000 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.