Turmeric

Water

Rain falls about 8 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 820 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 420 mm it can use in a normal year, and 300 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 39 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 35 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 33 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 32 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 23 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)

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

Soil

Soil for Turmeric: 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• 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 (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 (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.