Ginger

Water

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

Needs about 1,040 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 370 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):

• Apr 38 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• May 38 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 34 °C / 24 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 20 °C
• Dec 31 °C / 18 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Ginger: 6 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: phosphorus and salt.

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

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 49 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).

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 (December 2025–January 2026): about ₹2,527 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.