Ginger

Water

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

Needs about 760 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 880 mm it can use in a normal year, and 620 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 33 °C / 19 °C
• Jun 31 °C / 21 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 21 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 21 °C
• Sep 28 °C / 19 °C
• Oct 26 °C / 15 °C
• Nov 22 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 18 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: organic carbon.

• The pH here suits 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 manganese.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 50 quintals an acre here (district figures).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹4,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Prices are usually best in May.

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.