Capsicum

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 390 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 0 mm it can use in a normal year, and 0 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):

• Nov 28 °C / 11 °C
• Dec 23 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 19 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 23 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 28 °C / 14 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in December can bring frost while the plants are young. Sow a little later, or cover the seedlings on cold nights.

Soil

Soil for Capsicum: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of manganese.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 5.5–6.8.

Money

Yield: about 14 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 (April–May 2026): about ₹2,200 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Prices are usually best in August.

Typical costs are about ₹19,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.