Turmeric

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 750 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 720 mm it can use in a normal year, and 550 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 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 32 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 30 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)

Nights in December can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Days in June get hotter than it likes. Time sowing so it flowers before then.

Soil

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

Not in the score: organic carbon.

• The pH here suits it.
• 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 iron.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 4.1 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–March 2026): about ₹12,663 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹20,950 a quintal, the middle of 22 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would lose about ₹54,000 a season at typical costs.

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.