Chillies (Dry)
Sow in October, harvest around March
Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.
No recent figures for your district. Priced from mandis across your state.
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 650 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 160 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 / 15 °C
- Dec 31 °C / 12 °C
- Jan 28 °C / 11 °C
- Feb 32 °C / 14 °C
- Mar 36 °C / 18 °C
Soil
Soil for Chillies (Dry): 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: salt.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 6.0–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 9.8 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–April 2026): about ₹13,813 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹16,250 a quintal, the middle of 6 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹7,110 2021
- ₹10,000 2022
- ₹12,710 2023
- ₹9,960 2024
- ₹8,330 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):
- Urea 80%
- Single Super Phosphate (SSP) 56%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 54%
- Triple Super Phosphate (TSP) 2%