Capsicum

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 470 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,100 mm it can use in a normal year, and 760 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

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

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

• Jun 25 °C / 16 °C
• Jul 25 °C / 17 °C
• Aug 25 °C / 17 °C
• Sep 24 °C / 16 °C
• Oct 22 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Capsicum: 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
• Most fields here are short of sulphur.

Likes pH 5.5–6.8.

Money

Yield: about 62 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025): about ₹4,024 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹4,000 a quintal, the middle of 189 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹1.2 lakh a season after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in October.

Typical costs are about ₹1.3 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.