Ginger

Water

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

Needs about 970 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 340 mm it can use in a normal year, and 220 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 / 22 °C
• May 35 °C / 23 °C
• Jun 31 °C / 22 °C
• Jul 30 °C / 21 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 21 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 29 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 27 °C / 16 °C

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.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 49 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 2026): about ₹4,900 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.