Capsicum
Sow in October, harvest around March
Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across India.
₹1.0 lakh–₹1.5 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹12,000–₹64,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 2 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Not known: No soil data
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 2 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 360 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 80 mm it can use in a normal year (40 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 mm from the monsoon at sowing.
Temperature
Grows best at 17–30 °C on average, and survives 8–35 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Oct 27 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 25 °C / 15 °C
- Dec 22 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 24 °C / 11 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
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).
On rain alone it gets about 78% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 78% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹2,688 a quintal across India's mandis.
- ₹2,530 2021
- ₹3,430 2022
- ₹2,630 2023
- ₹4,000 2024
- ₹3,610 2025
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.