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 India.
₹1.2 lakh–₹1.8 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹46,000–₹1.0 lakh an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.
Needs about 570 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 690 mm it can use in a normal year, and 550 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 35 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 33 °C / 27 °C
- Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 33 °C / 26 °C
- Oct 32 °C / 23 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 16 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Green Chillies: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 5.5–6.8.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 42 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025): about ₹3,500 a quintal across India's mandis.
This week: about ₹4,000 a quintal, the middle of 9 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹96,000 a season after typical costs.
- ₹2,510 2021
- ₹3,050 2022
- ₹2,780 2023
- ₹3,560 2024
- ₹3,050 2025
Prices are usually best in February.
Typical costs are about ₹71,000 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 nitrogen Your soil is likely short of nitrogen.
Add about a quarter more urea than the usual dose, in two or three splits. A pulse crop in rotation also adds nitrogen.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.