Turmeric

Water

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

Needs about 1,020 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 310 mm it can use in a normal year, and 200 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):

• Jun 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 35 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 35 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 35 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 33 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 31 °C / 23 °C
• Dec 31 °C / 21 °C
• Jan 32 °C / 21 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

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 20 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 (March 2026): about ₹12,366 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹20,405 a quintal, the middle of 3 mandis in your state (latest 11 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.