Ginger

Water

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

Needs about 950 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 960 mm it can use in a normal year, and 550 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 36 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 35 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 34 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 32 °C / 25 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 24 °C
• Dec 28 °C / 23 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Ginger: 7 out of 10 (okay).

• 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 organic carbon.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 82 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹7,875 a quintal across mandis in your state.

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.