Green Chillies
Sow in June, harvest around November
This season's sowing time (June–July) 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.
₹22,000–₹33,000
per acre a season, before costs
At typical costs, from a loss of ₹701 to a profit of ₹10,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 2 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
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 640 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 570 mm it can use in a normal year, and 420 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):
- Jun 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 33 °C / 25 °C
- Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
- Sep 33 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 35 °C / 20 °C
- Nov 31 °C / 14 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Green Chillies: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
- Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
Likes pH 5.5–6.8.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 13 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
On rain alone it gets about 90% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 90% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025): about ₹2,300 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹2,500 a quintal, the middle of 9 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹7,000 a season after typical costs.
- ₹1,870 2021
- ₹2,180 2022
- ₹2,040 2023
- ₹2,450 2024
- ₹2,140 2025
Prices are usually best in March.
Typical costs are about ₹23,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.
How to make it work
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Short of organic carbon Your soil is likely short of organic carbon.
Add 4 tonnes of compost or farmyard manure per acre before sowing, and plough crop leftovers back in instead of burning them.
Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 40%
- Single Super Phosphate (SSP) 24%
- Urea 24%