Ginger

Water

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

Needs about 980 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 43 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 39 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 27 °C / 11 °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: 9 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 77 quintals an acre here (district figures).

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 (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.