Chillies (Dry)
Sow in July, harvest around December
This season's sowing time (July–August) is over.
Grown on 90 acres here. Sold at 2 mandis in your district.
₹2.0 lakh–₹2.9 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹84,000–₹1.8 lakh an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 3 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Not known: No soil data
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 3 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 510 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 390 mm it can use in a normal year, and 310 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):
- Jul 29 °C / 22 °C
- Aug 29 °C / 22 °C
- Sep 29 °C / 21 °C
- Oct 28 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 25 °C / 14 °C
- Dec 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Likes pH 6.0–7.5. We have no pH figures for this place.
Money
Yield: about 14 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (your district's own figure looked wrong).
On rain alone it gets about 77% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 77% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025–January 2026): about ₹23,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹17,550 a quintal, the middle of 39 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹75,000 a season after typical costs.
- ₹27,000 2023
- ₹24,000 2024
- ₹23,000 2025
Prices are usually best in September.
Typical costs are about ₹1.1 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.
How to make it work
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 97%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 97%
- Urea 97%
- Single Super Phosphate (SSP) 13%