Ginger

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 750 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,160 mm it can use in a normal year, and 790 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

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

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

• May 31 °C / 17 °C
• Jun 30 °C / 18 °C
• Jul 27 °C / 18 °C
• Aug 27 °C / 18 °C
• Sep 26 °C / 17 °C
• Oct 25 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 20 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 17 °C / 7 °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: 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 48 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).

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.