Capsicum

Water

Rain falls about 3 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 440 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 320 mm it can use in a normal year, and 250 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 27 °C / 17 °C
• Jul 24 °C / 17 °C
• Aug 24 °C / 17 °C
• Sep 23 °C / 15 °C
• Oct 21 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Capsicum: 8 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).

On rain alone it gets about 74% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 74% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025): about ₹4,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹2,900 a quintal, the middle of 3 mandis in your district (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹6,000 a season after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in March.

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.