Capsicum

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 470 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 850 mm it can use in a normal year, and 620 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

Grows best at 17–30 °C on average, and survives 8–35 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 27 °C / 20 °C
• Jul 26 °C / 19 °C
• Aug 26 °C / 19 °C
• Sep 26 °C / 19 °C
• Oct 26 °C / 19 °C

Soil

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

Not in the score: organic carbon and pH.

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

Likes pH 5.5–6.8. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

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

Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025): about ₹8,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹8,000 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your district (latest 11 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹3.7 lakh a season after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in February.

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.