Turmeric

Water

Rain falls about 4 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 480 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 320 mm it can use in a normal year, and 210 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 22 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 22 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 21 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 16 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 9 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 3 °C / -7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan -2 °C / -10 °C (outside its best range)

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

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 4.9 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 ₹12,663 a quintal across India's mandis.

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

Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in November.

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.