Capsicum

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 480 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,300 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,180 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 30 °C / 24 °C
• Jul 29 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 24 °C

Soil

Soil for Capsicum: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

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

Likes pH 5.5–6.8.

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 ₹6,500 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹7,500 a quintal, the middle of 29 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹3.3 lakh a season after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in March.

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.