https://doi.org/10.37229/fsa.fjh.2025.12.01

Recent climate changes in Egypt, characterized by a noticeable increase in temperature and reduced rainfall, have prompted the expansion of cultivating unconventional new crop species adapted to these emerging environmental conditions, such as ginger plants. Therefore, this experiment was conducted over two growing seasons, 2021/2022 and 2022/2023, at Ahmed Orabi Agricultural Cooperative Association, El-Obour City, Qalyubia Governorate, Egypt, with the application soil amendments improving, including control (without soil amendments), humic acid (3.5 kg per feddan), compost (15 m³ per feddan) and iron sulfate FeSo₄ (1 kg per 10 m²) to assess the adaptability and productivity of ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) in the newly reclaimed Egyptian soils. It aimed to evaluate the feasibility of cultivating ginger under recent climate change and emerging environmental conditions. According to the results, ginger can be produced under the climate in newly reclaimed Egyptian soil by using soil amendments. Specifically, iron sulfate at a rate of 1 kg per 10 m² is the most effective amendment in enhancing soil suitability, reducing germination time, increasing germination %, improving rhizome parameters, increasing rhizome yield, altering volatile oil content and composition, and decreasing fiber and starch percentages.