Turmeric

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 780 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 710 mm it can use in a normal year, and 480 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 / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 32 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 31 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 22 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)

Nights in January can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

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 (your district's own figure looked wrong).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–March 2026): about ₹10,759 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹20,950 a quintal, the middle of 22 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would lose about ₹3,000 a season at typical costs.

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.