Green Chillies

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 450 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 160 mm it can use in a normal year, and 100 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 28 °C / 18 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 17 °C
• Sep 27 °C / 14 °C
• Oct 23 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 17 °C / 3 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 10 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)

Nights in November can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Soil for Green Chillies: 9 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 5.5–6.8.

Money

Yield: about 38 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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 (January 2026): about ₹6,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Prices are usually best in January.

Typical costs are about ₹64,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.