Turmeric

Water

Rain falls about 2 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 800 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 710 mm it can use in a normal year, and 560 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):

• May 30 °C / 19 °C
• Jun 29 °C / 22 °C
• Jul 29 °C / 22 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 22 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 28 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 26 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Likes pH 6.0–7.0. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 9.5 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).

On rain alone it gets about 89% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 89% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹13,513 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹20,950 a quintal, the middle of 22 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹38,000 a season after typical costs.

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.