Turmeric

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 750 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 2,190 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,580 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

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

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

• May 30 °C / 22 °C
• Jun 29 °C / 23 °C
• Jul 29 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 29 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 26 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 23 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: sulphur.

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

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 26 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹29,000 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 leave about ₹4.0 lakh a season after 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.