Ginger

Water

Rain falls about 5 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 750 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 520 mm it can use in a normal year, and 300 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 19–29 °C on average, and survives 13–35 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• May 28 °C / 15 °C
• Jun 30 °C / 18 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 18 °C
• Aug 27 °C / 18 °C
• Sep 27 °C / 15 °C
• Oct 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 19 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 13 °C / 2 °C (outside its best range)

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

Soil

Soil for Ginger: 7 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of sulphur, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 41 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (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 ₹6,625 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in July.

Typical costs are about ₹1.0 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.