Turmeric

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 970 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 380 mm it can use in a normal year, and 320 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 40 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 34 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 29 °C / 22 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 21 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 12 °C

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: 7 out of 10 (okay).

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

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 14 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 (January–February 2026): about ₹14,913 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹22,100 a quintal, the middle of 7 mandis in your state (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.