Ginger

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 750 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 680 mm it can use in a normal year, and 510 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 32 °C / 18 °C
• Jun 31 °C / 20 °C
• Jul 27 °C / 20 °C
• Aug 27 °C / 19 °C
• Sep 27 °C / 18 °C
• Oct 25 °C / 14 °C
• Nov 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 17 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in December can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Soil for Ginger: 8 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 29 quintals an acre here (district figures).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹4,300 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in June.

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.