Chillies (Dry)
Sow in October, harvest around March
Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.
No recent figures for your district. Sold at 2 mandis in your district.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 680 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 0 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 150 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 34 °C / 20 °C
- Nov 33 °C / 16 °C
- Dec 31 °C / 13 °C
- Jan 30 °C / 12 °C
- Feb 34 °C / 15 °C
- Mar 37 °C / 19 °C
Soil
Soil for Chillies (Dry): 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Salt in the soil here can harm it.
- Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
Likes pH 6.0–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 10 quintals an acre here (older figures, 2018-19).
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 (March 2026): about ₹13,800 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹16,250 a quintal, the middle of 6 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).
Prices are usually best in March.
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
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Short of nitrogen Your soil is likely short of nitrogen.
Add about a quarter more urea than the usual dose, in two or three splits. A pulse crop in rotation also adds nitrogen.
About 98% of local fields of this crop get it.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 98%
- Single Super Phosphate (SSP) 75%
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 63%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 7%