Capsicum

Water

Rain falls about 2 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 180 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 60 mm it can use in a normal year (40 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 30 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

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

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

• Nov 11 °C / 1 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 6 °C / -4 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 3 °C / -6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 5 °C / -4 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 9 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)

Nights in November can bring frost while the plants are young. Sow a little later, or cover the seedlings on cold nights.

Soil

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

Not in the score: sulphur and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of nitrogen, 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).

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 (April–May 2026): about ₹1,863 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in October.

Typical costs are about ₹93,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.