Ginger

Water

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

Needs about 690 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 780 mm it can use in a normal year, and 560 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 29 °C / 18 °C
• Jun 29 °C / 19 °C
• Jul 26 °C / 19 °C
• Aug 25 °C / 19 °C
• Sep 25 °C / 17 °C
• Oct 23 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 16 °C / 5 °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).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of sulphur, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 49 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.