Capsicum

Water

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

Needs about 490 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 360 mm it can use in a normal year, and 210 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):

• Oct 33 °C / 25 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 23 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 21 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 20 °C
• Feb 32 °C / 21 °C

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.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

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 73% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 73% of this yield.

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 ₹91,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.