Capsicum

Water

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

Needs about 600 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 500 mm it can use in a normal year, and 320 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 38 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 33 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 36 °C / 22 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of sulphur.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

Likes pH 5.5–6.8.

Money

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

On rain alone it gets about 84% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 84% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025): about ₹3,075 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹3,000 a quintal, the middle of 5 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹27,000 a season after typical costs.

Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in June.

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.