Turmeric

Water

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

Needs about 910 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 710 mm it can use in a normal year, and 520 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 42 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 38 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in May 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.
• 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 15 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).

On rain alone it gets about 78% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 78% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹16,925 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 ₹1.0 lakh a season after typical costs.

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.