Ginger

Water

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

Needs about 910 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 820 mm it can use in a normal year, and 690 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 / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 35 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 33 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 26 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 20 °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: 9 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 41 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (your district's own figure looked wrong).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹5,875 a quintal at mandis in your district.

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.