Capsicum

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 480 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 560 mm it can use in a normal year, and 420 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):

• Jun 29 °C / 18 °C
• Jul 26 °C / 18 °C
• Aug 25 °C / 17 °C
• Sep 25 °C / 16 °C
• Oct 23 °C / 12 °C

Soil

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

Not in the score: sulphur, zinc, iron and 3 more.

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

Likes pH 5.5–6.8.

Money

Yield: about 71 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025): about ₹8,500 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹4,500 a quintal, the middle of 24 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹1.7 lakh a season after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in December.

Typical costs are about ₹1.5 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.