Capsicum

Water

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

Needs about 320 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 170 mm it can use in a normal year (80 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 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):

• Oct 25 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 23 °C / 13 °C
• Dec 20 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 21 °C / 10 °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 nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 5.5–6.8.

Money

Yield: about 32 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 (March–April 2026): about ₹2,688 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in October.

Typical costs are about ₹48,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.