Chillies (Dry)
Sow in July, harvest around December
This season's sowing time (July–August) is over.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹2.2 lakh–₹3.4 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹1.1 lakh–₹2.2 lakh 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 470 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 410 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 27 °C / 20 °C
- Aug 27 °C / 20 °C
- Sep 27 °C / 19 °C
- Oct 26 °C / 17 °C
- Nov 23 °C / 12 °C
- Dec 20 °C / 8 °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 (no figures for your state).
On rain alone it gets about 87% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 87% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025–January 2026): about ₹23,500 a quintal across mandis in your state.
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 ₹98,000 a season after typical costs.
- ₹27,250 2023
- ₹24,000 2024
- ₹23,750 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.