Turmeric

Water

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

Needs about 970 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 390 mm it can use in a normal year, and 230 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 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 34 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 19 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 17 °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: 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

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.