Capsicum

Water

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

Needs about 440 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 150 mm it can use in a normal year, and 90 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 17–30 °C on average, and survives 8–35 °C.

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

• Jul 28 °C / 18 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 17 °C
• Sep 27 °C / 14 °C
• Oct 23 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 17 °C / 3 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

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

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 5.5–6.8.

Money

Yield: about 41 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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 (December 2025): about ₹7,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.

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

Prices are usually best in December.

Typical costs are about ₹75,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.