Ginger

Water

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

Needs about 980 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 350 mm it can use in a normal year, and 190 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 38 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 33 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 32 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 36 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 34 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 13 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Ginger: 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Many fields here are short of sulphur, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 89 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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 ₹5,463 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.