Capsicum
Sow in June, harvest around November
This season's sowing time (June–July) is over.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Sold at 4 mandis in your district.
₹3.3 lakh–₹4.9 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹1.8 lakh–₹3.4 lakh an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 10/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough, even in a dry year.
Needs about 540 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 690 mm it can use in a normal year, and 620 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 37 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 32 °C / 25 °C
- Aug 31 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
- Oct 29 °C / 18 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Capsicum: 10 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 5.5–6.8.
How the soil score worksMoney
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 ₹5,750 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹6,375 a quintal, the middle of 2 mandis in your district (latest 11 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹3.1 lakh a season after typical costs.
- ₹4,630 2021
- ₹5,600 2022
- ₹3,750 2023
- ₹5,780 2024
- ₹5,480 2025
Prices are usually best in October.
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.