Chillies (Dry)
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 your state.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Needs care: Risky: 5 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Not known: No soil data
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Water
Rain falls about 5 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 460 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 90 mm it can use in a normal year (40 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 140 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 28 °C / 20 °C
- Nov 25 °C / 15 °C
- Dec 22 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 22 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 25 °C / 11 °C
- Mar 28 °C / 15 °C
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).
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 ₹23,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹17,550 a quintal, the middle of 39 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹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.