Capsicum

Water

Rain falls about 6 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 550 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 300 mm it can use in a normal year, and 230 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 31 °C / 22 °C
• Jul 30 °C / 21 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 21 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 29 °C / 20 °C

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.
• 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 71 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025): about ₹2,200 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹3,500 a quintal, the middle of 3 mandis in your district (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in July.

Typical costs are about ₹1.5 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.