Ginger

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 750 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 920 mm it can use in a normal year, and 820 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 28 °C / 18 °C
• Jun 28 °C / 20 °C
• Jul 27 °C / 21 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 21 °C
• Sep 28 °C / 20 °C
• Oct 26 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Ginger: 9 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 37 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 ₹4,913 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in September.

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.