Turmeric

Water

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

Needs about 1,030 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 390 mm it can use in a normal year, and 250 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 37 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 35 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 34 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 34 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 33 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 31 °C / 22 °C
• Dec 31 °C / 21 °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).

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• Many fields here are short of sulphur, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 24 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 ₹13,513 a quintal across India's mandis.

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