Ginger

Water

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

Needs about 1,030 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 390 mm it can use in a normal year, and 250 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 37 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 35 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 34 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 22 °C
• Dec 31 °C / 21 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• 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 (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 (January–February 2026): about ₹6,550 a quintal at mandis in your district.

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.