Ginger

Water

Rain falls about 13 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,090 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 440 mm it can use in a normal year, and 300 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 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• May 37 °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 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 34 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 31 °C / 24 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 23 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: iron.

• 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 phosphorus.

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).

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 ₹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.