Turmeric

Water

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

Needs about 900 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 320 mm it can use in a normal year, and 220 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 34 °C / 22 °C
• Jun 29 °C / 21 °C
• Jul 27 °C / 21 °C
• Aug 27 °C / 21 °C
• Sep 28 °C / 20 °C
• Oct 30 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 16 °C

Soil

Soil for Turmeric: 9 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 zinc.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 25 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).

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 ₹13,621 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹13,000 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your state (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.