Turmeric

Water

Rain falls about 7 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 830 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 490 mm it can use in a normal year, and 350 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 20–28 °C on average, and survives 18–32 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 38 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 33 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 33 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)

Days in June get hotter than it likes. Time sowing so it flowers before then.

Soil

Soil for Turmeric: 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 6.5 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 (February–March 2026): about ₹10,759 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹20,813 a quintal, the middle of 22 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in January.

Typical costs are about ₹1.4 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.