Turmeric

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 770 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 890 mm it can use in a normal year, and 770 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 30 °C / 20 °C
• Jun 26 °C / 19 °C
• Jul 24 °C / 19 °C
• Aug 24 °C / 19 °C
• Sep 25 °C / 19 °C
• Oct 26 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 26 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 16 °C

Soil

Soil for Turmeric: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.

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).

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). At that price an acre would leave about ₹1.8 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.