Turmeric

Water

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

Needs about 920 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 280 mm it can use in a normal year, and 180 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 36 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 31 °C / 22 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 22 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 22 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 30 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 19 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 17 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Turmeric: 8 out of 10 (good).

• 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 organic carbon.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 27 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 ₹13,621 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.