Capsicum

Water

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

Needs about 590 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 470 mm it can use in a normal year, and 380 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 / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 21 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Capsicum: 7 out of 10 (okay).

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

Likes pH 5.5–6.8.

Money

Yield: about 44 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

On rain alone it gets about 80% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 80% of this yield.

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 ₹49,000 a season after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in October.

Typical costs are about ₹90,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.