Ginger

Water

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

Needs about 650 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 640 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 26 °C / 15 °C
• Jun 27 °C / 17 °C
• Jul 25 °C / 17 °C
• Aug 24 °C / 17 °C
• Sep 23 °C / 15 °C
• Oct 21 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 17 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 14 °C / 3 °C (outside its best range)

Nights in November can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

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

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