Turmeric

Water

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

Needs about 920 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 350 mm it can use in a normal year, and 280 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 33 °C / 22 °C
• Jun 30 °C / 21 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 20 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 20 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 20 °C
• Oct 29 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 19 °C
• Dec 28 °C / 17 °C

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 23 quintals an acre here (district figures).

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 ₹13,688 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹12,500 a quintal, the middle of 2 mandis in your district (latest 9 Nov).

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.